power plant

1. The History Power Plant IM was originally built in 1921 in the Monceau-sur-Sambre neighbourhood of the Belgium city of Charleroi. After its completion it was one of the largest coal burning power plants in country. Water was let into the cooling tower where it would be cooled by the wind that...

This one is from last year's very fruitful trip to Slovakia and Hungary. My friend suggested we check it out because he had it marked on his map as a coal mine, and it was along our route. There isn't much to find history-wise. It is situated in one of the many industrial valleys of Slovakia...

Another from the backlog of trips across to the continent from the last 10 years, this time with the usual suspects @Camera Shy @Cloth Head and @host Making the most of our time in Portugal we decided to fly into Lisbon and spend the next 4 days travelling north towards our flight home from...

This is somewhere I had been meaning to go to for a long time, for at least a year since I was made aware there was a potential power plant left over at the old paper mill site, but for one reason or another it never happened and got pushed back into the 'we'll do it some day probably' pile as...

The history of the power plant dates back to the early 1940s. It was built by the Germans to provide electricity for chemical plants. A few years later, at the end of World War II, it was bombed by the Allies. The destruction was completed by the Red Army in 1945, which, as usual, stole...

Location To those of you who are not aware New York is a state slightly larger than England and there are lots of Urbex spots outside the city. One of them is the The Glenwood Power Plant, also known as the Yonkers Power Station, a historic but abandoned structure located on the banks of the...

The History: Vockerode/Elbe Power Plant was a lignite and later a gas-fired power plant in Vockerode, East Germany. It was built in 1937 and shut-down between 1994 and 1998. After being the site of a power plant for almost 60 years, in 2001 its four chimneys were demolished although much of the...

This is one of my favorite locations from our 2024 summer trip - a small power plant in an abandoned textile factory somewhere in France. The story goes something like this - one day I was browsing Flickr to see what popped up on my feed and what I could try to find and I saw a photo from this...

There were coal-fired power plants A, B and C here. These stopped operating in 1981 and have all since been demolished. The gas power plant was built a little further south, on the river, in the 1990s. The story began in 1897 when the town built its first small coal-fired power station. In...

THE HISTORY Nestled in the Charleroi region are the remnants of the city’s once-thriving steel industry. Amidst numerous steel factories, blast furnaces, and a cokes factory, the weathered walls of the Cockerill-Sambre power plant, affectionately known as the Blue Power Plant, still stand...

The Backstory So, another month, another explore. Seriously, I haven't had this much success in a while *knocks on wood*. Today's subject is a small heating plant in the Czech Republic located in an active area. I came across it at some point in 2020 when I was randomly skimming Google Maps and...

This is a very small power station me and my mate visited a year ago. Pure "DecayFest": seriously, not a single tag or graffiti in sight, just pure decay. The same could not be said for the rest of the industrial complex, a former paper mill: all the other buildings were empty with a little bit...

Kelenfold power plant was built in 1914 and was considered one of the most modern electrical plants in the world. The art-deco facility was designed by Hungarian architects Kálmán Reichl and Virgil Bierbauer as a tribute to the power of electricity. The plant, which shut down in 2005, is...

As part of our recent Germany trip, I've decided to tick off this location from my list. Once again, I've had it on my map for about three years but haven't had the time to visit. This place used to be a nightmare to get into - a paper mill with a boiler house and turbine hall. One of my friends...

Cottam Power Station Figured that I should probably post this one, considering it has sat in a pre-written state for most of the year on a file I've nearly deleted several times. Anyway, here goes nothin' As coal usage in the UK and across most of the western world diminishes, more and more of...