Closure of the Bouchain Coal Power Plant

Closure of the Bouchain Coal Power Plant

The countdown has begun for the Bouchain coal-fired power plant... Between 2013 and 2015, EDF closed 10 units of this type in France... Inadequate for new environmental regulations. Bouchain will turn 45 on April 15. Day of its closure. Coal stocks are shrinking day after day. The trains no longer carry them... At the Bouchain power station, the end of an era is looming... 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 are still 50,000 t, 30 d of operation, we have known 30,000 t, autonomy during the harsh winters... The Bouchain Thermal Power Plant was commissioned in 1970. With its chimney 120 meters high, it did not pass unnoticed in the landscape... Inside, one of the 2 boilers is already stopped. Its 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 boiler life size... the only... There are only a hundred employees left on the site and some of them have been working there for more than 30 years... Patrick Dremière Head of section Mechanics Boilermaking At the moment, we are preparing for the closure, great tightness on the heart, my life...almost... I spend some time there... 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 the Coal Power Plant This power plant April 15 stops definitively... 45 years, not end...it’s just a chapter, we will continue the adventure gas power plant next door... And the cooling tower, it, will be kept, to serve the future power plant to Cycle combined Gas...under construction... A new large power plant, a world first, will be commissioned at the end of 2016.

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File : Coal-fired power plants

Publication date : 11 February 2015