List of least carbon efficient power stations

This is a list of least carbon efficient power stations in selected countries. Lists were created by the WWF and lists the most polluting power stations in terms of the level of carbon dioxide produced per unit of electricity generated. In general lignite burning coal-fired power stations with subcritical boilers (in which bubbles form in contrast to the newer supercritical steam generator) emit the most.[1][2] The Chinese national carbon trading scheme may follow the European Union Emission Trading Scheme in making such power stations uneconomic to run.[3][4] However some companies such as NLC India Limited and Electricity Generation Company (Turkey) generate in countries without a carbon price. Lignite power stations built or retrofitted before 1995 often also emit local air pollution.[5][6][7][2]

2015 report - companies

In 2015 the Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment published Stranded Assets and Subcritical Coal report analyzing inter alia carbon intensity of subcritical coal-fired power stations of 100 largest companies having these power stations.[8]

CO
2 intensity
(kg/kWh)		 Company Country Number of SCPS
1.447 NLC India Limited  India 2
1.342 Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company Limited  India 3
1.279 GDF Suez  India 10
1.277 Kazakhmys  Kazakhstan 4
1.269 West Bengal Power Development Corporation  India 5
1.253 OGK-2  Russia 4
1.243 Maharashtra State Power Generation Company  India 7
1.240 Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand  Thailand 4
1.226 Termoelectrica  Romania 17

2014 EU list

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Power Station, LocationCountry2013 emissions (MtCO
2)
Bełchatów Power Station, Bełchatów Poland37.18
Neurath Power Station, Grevenbroich Germany33.28
Niederaussem Power Station, Niederaussem Germany29.58
Jänschwalde Power Station, Jänschwalde Germany25.40
Boxberg Power Station, Boxberg, Saxony Germany21.89
Drax Power Station United Kingdom20.32
Weisweiler Power Station, Eschweiler Germany18.66
Agios Dimitrios Power Station, Agios Dimitrios, Kozani Greece13.11
Brindisi Sud Power Station Italy11.81
Lippendorf Power Station, Lippendorf Germany11.73
Schwarze Pumpe power station, Spremberg Germany11.28
Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar United Kingdom11.01
West Burton power stations, Gainsborough United Kingdom10.89
Eesti Power Plant, Narva Estonia10.67
Kozienice Power Station, Kozienice Poland10.23
Scholven Power Station, Scholven Germany10.22

Other

At over 1.34 tCO2-e/MWh Yallourn is the most carbon intense in Australia.[10]

The proposed Afşin-Elbistan C power station would become the least carbon efficient coal-fired power station if built. But Balbina Dam is worse.[11]

References
  1. "Scenarios for Coal-Exit in Germany—A Model-Based Analysis and Implications in the European Context". Energies. April 2020.
  2. "Old German lignite units have entered death zone". www.montelnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  3. "Despite headwinds, China prepares for world's largest carbon market". www.lowyinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  4. "China National ETS".
  5. "Tuzla 7 lignite power plant, Bosnia and Herzegovina". Bankwatch. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  6. "KEK to get EUR 76 million grant to cut pollution from Kosovo B power plant". Balkan Green Energy News. 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  7. Mohan, Vishwa. "CPCB threatens to shut down 14 coal-fired power plants which failed to limit emissions". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  8. Dericks, Gerard; Mitchell, James (March 2015). Stranded Assets and Subcritical Coal: The Risk to Companies and Investors (PDF). ISBN 978-0-9927618-1-3. Missing |author1= (help)
  9. "Report: Europe's Dirty 30 - How the EU's coal-fired power plants are undermining its climate efforts" (PDF) (Press release). WWF. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  10. "Yallourn, Australia's dirtiest power". Environment Victoria. 2019-05-21. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
  11. Grossman, Daniel (18 September 2019). "Deliberate drowning of Brazil's rainforest is worsening climate change". New Scientist.
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