Endesa Termic

Endesa Termic

Chimney of the As Pontes power plant compared in height with the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Endesa Termic is a 356-metre-high (1,168 ft) chimney belonging to the coal power plant held by Spanish utility Endesa at As Pontes de García Rodríguez in the outskirts of Ferrol in the province of A Coruña, north-western Spain. Endesa Termic was built in 1974 and is the second tallest chimney in Europe.

The plant is currently undergoing a process of adaptation to the higher calorific value of hard coal due to the end of lignite extraction in the local mine. Another combined-cycle thermal power plant is currently being tested, which uses gas as fuel and produces 800 MW of power between its three turbines: two gas turbines and one steam turbine. The steam used by the latter is produced using the heat from the exhaust gases of the gas turbines.

See also

• List of towers
• List of chimneys
• List of tallest freestanding structures in the world
• List of tallest structures in Spain
• Endesa acronym in Spanish for Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A.
• Ferrol City and Naval Station in North Western Spain

External links

• Industrial Area & Mine for the Endesa Termic Plant in As Pontes de García Rodríguez
• The Coal Power Plant of As Pontes de García Rodríguez en Ferrolterra (Outskirts of Ferrol) North-western Spain.
• Black Shadows in Green Galicia - The Coal Power Plant of As Pontes de García Rodríguez (Web in Spanish) Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
• Foster Wheeler to Upgrade Second Unit at As Pontes Power Plant
• http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b1018
• Nóvoa-Muñoz, JC (May 2008). "Mercury accumulation in upland acid forest ecosystems nearby a coal-fired power-plant in southwest Europe (Galicia, NW Spain)". Sci Total Environ. 394 (2–3): 303–12. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.044. PMID 18295823.