BOUCHAIN COAL PLANT CLOSURE

BOUCHAIN COAL PLANT CLOSURE

[Source France 3 Régions]: The countdown has begun for the Bouchain coal plant... Between 2013 and 2015, EDF closes 10 units of this type in France... : Unsuited to new environmental regulations. Bouchain will turn 45 on April 15. The day it closed. COM Day after day, coal stocks are declining. The trains no longer carry... At the Bouchain power plant, the end of an era promises... that of electricity production by burning coal... At full capacity, the plant could consume up to 2000 tonnes per day. Raymond Brzezinski Process manager There remain 50000 t, 30 days of operation, we experienced 30000 t, autonomy during the winters a little rough... The Bouchain Flame Thermal Power Plant was commissioned in 1970. With its fireplace 120 meters high, it did not go unnoticed in the landscape... Inside, one of the 2 boilers is already stopped. His twin still produces electricity by burning coal... Raymond Brzezinski Process manager Through all these openings, fireballs, transfer... steam 00.50 c the only visit a life-size boiler... the only... There are only a hundred employees on the site and among them, some have been working there for more than 30 years... Patrick Dremière Head of Section Mechanics Boilermaking Right now, we are preparing the closure, very tight on the heart, c my life...almost... I spend a lot of time... After its shutdown, the Bouchain power plant will enter a phase of deconstruction that will last 8 to 10 years. Marc-Antoine Rupp Director of Coal Power Plant This plant 15 April stops definitely... 45 years, not end...it is simply a chapter, we will continue the gas central adventure next... And the cooling tower, it, will be preserved, to be used for the future Gas combined cycle power plant...under construction... A new high-power plant, a world first, which will be commissioned at the end of 2016.

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File : Coal-fired power plants

Publication date : 11 February 2015