Endesa Termic

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.

Endesa Termic

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

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.