PKE S.A. Power Plant Jaworzno III
Power Plant Jaworzno II

Południowy Koncern Energetyczny SA. was established on January 2001 as a result of a merge of seven power stations located in Southern Poland. The State Treasury is the owner of the company. Geographically the plant is located in the Southern part of the Silesian Upland (Mysłowicka Valley). Jaworzno lies 20 km South East of the centre of the Upper Silesian Industrial District. The plant employs approximately 450 persons.

The authority for Jaworzno Power Station III is the Silesian Voivodship office, Department for Environment and Agriculture. Jaworzno Power Station II produces thermal and electric power. The plant pro-duced 1,339,000 MWh electric energy and 483,000 MWh thermal energy in 2001. Currently four pulverised coal firing boilers and 2 fluidised bed boilers are working at the plant. The fluidised bed boilers are adapted to allow coal to be combusted together with sludge – waste from coal treatment processes. Sludge constitutes up to 50 % of the combusted fuel for the fluidised bed boil-ers.

Hard coal is however the basic fuel, although the fluidised bed boilers can combust a mixture of coal and coal slurries. Coal is supplied to the power sta-tion by rail and track. Solid waste, hard coal ash and slag are residual products from the energy production and a significant amount of waste water is also cre-ated as a result of steam flash off in the cooling towers.

The new equipment, built during the modernisation of the power station, i.e. fluidised bed boilers, auxiliary dust and ash removing equipment, water treat-ment plant equipment and wastewater treatment plant, meets BAT require-ments.

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