Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Climate Neutrality

Europe’s “Dirty Thirty”

Grams of CO 2 per Kilowatt hour (In)efficiency of power plants

WWF Ranking of the 30 dirtiest power plants in Europe

Please note: These are not the most emitting power plants but the least efficient ones. This ranking only compares plants located in the European Union (25 countries at the time of the study). The study only covers power plants serving the public power supply.

620 to 850 850 to 1 000 1 000 to 1 150 1 150 to 1 350

Study area (EU25) New EU members (not in the study)

United Kingdom

All these power plants are burning coal (brown coal for the dirtiest ones).

Baltic Sea

LONGANNET

North Sea

EGGBOROUGH FERRYBRIDGE

WEST BURTON FIDDLERS FERRY

DRAX COTTAM

SCHWARZE PUMPE

RATCLIFFE KINGSNORTH

Poland

JÄNSCHWALDE

SCHOLVEN

DIDCOT

KOZIENICE

Atlantic Ocean

BOXBERG

NEURATH

FRIMMERSDORF

LIPPENDORF

WEISWEILER

TUROW BELCHATOW

NIEDERAUßEM

RYBNIK

PRUNEROV

Czech Rep.

MANNHEIM

Germany

AS PONTES

Portugal

Italy

Spain

SINES

BRINDISI

KARDIA

AGIOS DIMITRIOS

Mediterranean Sea

Greece

Source: World Wide Fund for Nature, using the European Pollutant Emission Register and the Community Independent Transition Log of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, 2007 (data for 2006).

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