Cordemais Power Station

The Cordemais Power Station is a thermal power station in France. It has two coal-fired groups with a capacity of 600 MW each, and two oil-fired groups with a capacity of 700 MW each, with a total production capacity of 1,200 MW. It had three oil-fired groups : a 585 MW generating unit that was decommissioned in 1996 and two 700 MW generating unit decommissioned in 2017 and 2018 [1]

Cordemais Power Station
CountryFrance
LocationCordemais
Coordinates47°16′48″N 1°52′48″W
StatusOperational
Commission date1970 (1970)
Owner(s)
Operator(s)Électricité de France
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Power generation
Units operational2
Units decommissioned3
Nameplate capacity1,200 MW
Capacity factor
  • 29 %
Annual net output4.28 TWh (2017)
External links
Website www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/nos-energies/carte-de-nos-implantations-industrielles-en-france/centrale-thermique-de-cordemais/presentation 
CommonsRelated media on Commons

The station is in the western part of France at Cordemais in the department of Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire. With an annual electricity production of 4.28 TWh in 2017 and represents 25% of the country's thermal electricity production[1]. It is an important source of electricity supply for Brittany.

It has four chimneys, of which two, at 220 m (720 ft), are some of the tallest structures in France.[2] It is fully owned by the French energy giant Électricité de France.

The station consumes between 1.3 and 2 million tonnes of coal per year. The coal, imported from South Africa, Poland, the United States and Australia, arrives at port facilities at Montoir-de-Bretagne and is conveyed to the power station by barge.

History

The Cordemais power station was commissioned in 1970 with a single oil-fired generating unit with a nameplate capacity of 585 MW. It was extended in 1976 with another two oil-fired units of 700 MW each, and in 1983 with one coal-fired unit of 600 MW. Its last expansion, another 600 MW coal-fired unit, was added in 1984. The station then functioned at a capacity of 3,185 MW until 1996, when the 1970s-built unit was decommissioned. In 2017 then in 2018, the other two oil-fired groups were decommissioned, resulting in its current capacity of 1,200 MW.

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See also

References
  1. "La centrale thermique de Cordemais" (PDF). edf.fr. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  2. "Top 10 Tallest Structures of France". frenchmoments.eu. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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