Pollution: EDF Vitry sur Seine power plant

Pollution: EDF Vitry sur Seine power plant

Last Monday, the VITRY EDF thermal power plant was operating at full power: a situation that only happens a thousand hours in the year. The largest coal-fired power plant in the Paris region covers only 1% of Ile de France’s needs, but it can burn up to 300 tonnes of coal per hour to produce electricity. This causes polluting releases, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, involved in recent alerts. Yet EDF denies that it is primarily responsible for these peaks and declares that it complies with the rejection standards. Interview with François MESLIER, director of EDF Energie IDF Est, on these discharges. The VITRY plant installed a device on one of its three boilers to reduce emissions by half. There are still two boilers to equip. The plant is far from being solely responsible for air pollution. District heating is heavily involved for sulphur dioxide and the automobile for nitrogen dioxide.

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Publication date : 9 November 1995