Janschwalde power station

The Janschwalde power station is an existing 3000 MW lignite-fired power plant at Jänschwalde in Germany which is owned and operated by Vattenfall. The plant has been selected as the site for a Carbon Capture and Storage demonstration project of oxyfuel technology initially trialled by the company at the Schwarze Pumpe power station.

Vattenfall states that the Janschwalde CCS oxyfuel boiler project would be "of 650 MW thermal (around 250 MW electric), which is about 20 times more than Vattenfall's 30 MW pilot plant under construction and compares to today’s largest Oxyfuel test rigs of 0.5 MW." It also states that postcombustion capture technology will also be tested at Jänschwalde.

A 2011 analysis by the European environment agency (EEA), 'Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe,' estimated that the 3,000 MW Janschwalde plant is the third largest polluting plant in all of Europe. Greenpeace and Oxfam protested in front of the plant in November 2011.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Carbon Capture and Storage
 * Carbon Capture and Storage demonstration projects worldwide
 * Carbon Capture and Storage in Germany

External resources

 * "Vattenfall Janschwalde Fact Sheet: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project", Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies @ MIT, June 7, 2010.