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13 June 2008 – RWE is planning to construct a 800 MW, €1.5bn ($2.3bn) hard coal power plant in Poland, which would be one of the biggest-ever projects in the Polish energy sector.
The new power station to be based in the village of Wola, Upper Silesia, will feature state-of-the-art technology. The 800 MW unit will emit reduced amounts of CO2 and significantly enhance the country's security of electricity supply. Technically it is a twin of the power plant currently being constructed by RWE in Hamm, Germany.
The project is based on a joint venture between RWE and Kompania Weglowa, the largest coal company in Poland and the EU, with RWE becoming the majority shareholder of the new joint company with a share of 75 per cent.
The parties signed a joint venture agreement in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak. The plant will be located on the premises of the former Piast Ruch II coal mine owned by Kompania Weglowa in the village of Wola and is scheduled to come on-stream in 2015.
Dr Johannes Lambertz, CEO of RWE Power: "The new power plant – comparable to our innovative units currently being built in Germany and planned in the Netherlands – will have an efficiency rate of 46 per cent. This will make it the most modern power plant in Poland and one of the most advanced power plants worldwide.
"The new unit will emit significantly less CO2 than older systems in Poland, where the current efficiency rate is only 33 to 35 per cent. This means up to 30 percent less hard coal per kWh will be required and annual CO2 emissions will be reduced by 1.3m tonnes."
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