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300 km
Mediterranean Sea
Baltic
Sea
North
Sea
Atlantic
Ocean
Europe’s “Dirty Thirty”
Germany
Poland
Italy
Greece
JÄNSCHWALDE
United
Kingdom
Spain
Portugal
MANNHEIM
BRINDISI
NIEDERAUßEM
NEURATH
TUROW BELCHATOW
KOZIENICE
RYBNIK
LONGANNET
WEST BURTON
RATCLIFFE KINGSNORTH
EGGBOROUGH
FERRYBRIDGE
DIDCOT
FIDDLERS FERRY
DRAX
COTTAM
PRUNEROV
SCHWARZE PUMPE
BOXBERG
LIPPENDORF
AS PONTES
SINES
KARDIA
AGIOS
DIMITRIOS
FRIMMERSDORF
SCHOLVEN
WEISWEILER
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.
Czech Rep.
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).
Grams of CO
2
per Kilowatt hour
(In)efficiency of power plants
WWF Ranking of the 30 dirtiest power plants in Europe
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)
All these power plants are
burning coal (brown coal for
the dirtiest ones).