First Unit Up at Moorburg Coal-fired Power Plant

GALWAY, IRELAND--March 3, 2015 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has fired up the first block of its controversial Moorburg coal-fired plant near Hamburg, Germany.

Delayed by environmental protests, political squabbling and technical hitches the first of two units, Unit B, went live over the weekend, seven years after construction started.