How a coal-fired power plant works

How a coal-fired power plant works

Report. In Saint Avold en Moselle, the coal-fired power plant has been operating exceptionally night and day for a week due to the country’s high demand for electricity. The report shows how difficult it is to operate this plant in cold weather. On the scene, the journalist explains that such a power plant is more reactive than a nuclear power plant because it only takes four hours to run at full capacity. These plants are more polluting only in times of high electricity consumption. These days they have produced 5% of the demand. A comment on factual images alternates with the interview of the director of the power station Germain GRANDJEAN. [Source: France 2 prompter] Thank you Luc for this information... So we heard it a moment ago, in these times of high consumption, nuclear power and hydraulics are not enough... France also uses good old coal plants... How do these plants work? Feature: Perrine BONNET, Vivien ROUSSEL

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Publication date : 7 February 2012