Matra power station

Matra Power Station is an existing 950 megawatt (MW) coal plant in Hungary.

Proposed Expansion
A new coal fired co-generation plant was proposed by Matrai Erömu, which is majority-owned by RWE and the the Hungarian Electricity Works, to have an installed capacity of 2,000 megawatts. However, RWE does not list the project as being amongst its "power plant new-build" list. On its website RWE states that "the company operates an 800 MW lignite-fired power plant that is supplied with coal from two opencast mines. Matra is Hungary’s second largest power producer and extracts half of the country's lignite." It also stated that in late 2006 and early 2007 two topping gas turbines (TGT) were commissioned at the plant which "have raised the capacity of the connected power plant units by some 10 per cent."

2010: Expansion Project Scrapped
In 2010, RWE announced that it was cancelling plans to add a new unit to the Matra station.

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External Articles

 * András Perger, "The role of coal in the Hungarian electricity sector with special attention to the use of lignite," Energy Club, November 2009