LONDON (Reuters) - A Polish coal-burning planttopped the list of Europe"s dirtiest installations for a third true year in 2009, despitethe plant slicing the emissions by 4.5 percent, rough European Commission interpretation showed.The Belchatow plant, run by state-owned application BOT Elektrownia, belched 29.5 milliontonnes of climate-warming CO dioxide (CO2) in to the ambience last year, down 1.4 milliontonnes from 2008 but still rounded off homogeneous to the total emissions of Croatia.With twelve out of the tip 30, Germany was again home to majority of Europe"s greatest emitters.The "dirty thirty," a tenure initial coined by immature organisation WWF, collectively issued 348.1million tonnes of CO2 last year, down 10.2 percent from 2008 and twelve percent next 2007 levels.The data, expelled on Apr 1, showed total CO2 expelled by all plants regulated by theEU"s Emissions Trading Scheme fell by over eleven percent last year, underlining the serious impactof a tellurian mercantile downturn on European industry.The tip thirty emitting plants perceived a little 265.4 million EU emissions permits underneath thescheme. This was next their total emissions, definition they were forced to buy an additional82.7 million from the marketplace at a cost of around 1.1 billion euros ($1.48 billion).Coal-fired energy plants done up the bulk of 2009"s tip thirty though dual steel plants managedto sojourn on the list: one in France owned by ArcelorMittal and the alternative in Germany run byThyssenKrupp.Belchatow and Vattenfall"s Jaenschwalde plant are between those due to get 180 million eurosin EU appropriation to assistance them cover up their emissions underground.Below is a list of the EU"s "dirty thirty" that includes CO2 total for 2008 and 2009 inmillions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent, as well as commission change. Also enclosed are thenumber of free emissions permits allocated and the assent surplus/deficit faced by each.RANK MEMBER COMPANY PLANT/ EMISSIONS PCT PERMIT LONG/NEW OLD STATE LOCATION 2009 2008 CHG ALLOC. SHORT1 1 Poland BOT Elektrownia Belchatow 29.5 30.9 -4.5 26.9 -2.52 2 Germany RWE AG Niederaussem 26.3 24.9 5.7 14.9 -11.43 3 Germany Vattenfall Jaenschwalde 23.3 23.5 -0.9 12.2 -11.04 4 UK Drax Group Drax 19.9 22.3 -11.0 9.5 -10.45 5 Germany RWE AG Weisweiler 19.0 21.4 -11.2 10.6 -8.46 7 Germany RWE AG Neurath 17.9 18.0 -0.4 8.4 -9.57 6 Germany RWE AG Frimmersdorf 16.8 18.6 -9.6 8.2 -8.68 8 Italy Enel SPA TE Brindisi Sud 13.0 14.9 -13.0 10.4 -2.69 eleven Greece Public Power Agios Dimitrios 12.9 11.8 9.5 11.0 -1.910 twelve Germany Vattenfall Bohlen 12.8 11.4 12.2 8.6 -4.211 9 Poland BOT Elektrownia Turow Bogatynia 11.6 12.9 -9.7 11.2 -0.512 seventeen Poland BOT Elektrownia Kozienice 10.7 10.0 6.8 9.6 -1.113 10 Germany Vattenfall Schwarze Pumpe 10.7 12.5 -14.4 8.1 -2.514 twenty Greece Public Power Kardia 9.6 9.6 0.0 8.4 -1.215 thirteen France ArcelorMittal Dunkerque 9.2 11.3 -18.6 11.7 2.516 sixteen UK EDF Cottam 8.4 10.2 -17.0 4.9 -3.517 twenty-one Germany Vattenfall Boxberg 8.1 9.3 -13.4 4.3 -3.818 eighteen UK E.ON Ratcliffe on Soar 7.6 9.9 -23.2 4.9 -2.719 New Poland BOT Elektrownia Opole 7.4 6.9 7.3 6.5 -0.920 New UK Scottish Power Longannet 7.3 5.9 24.4 5.6 -1.721 twenty-six Poland BOT Elektrownia Rybnik 7.2 8.1 -10.8 7.6 0.422 New Germany Vattenfall Boxberg 7.2 6.1 17.2 4.3 -2.823 nineteen UK EDF West Burton 7.2 9.7 -25.7 4.9 -2.324 twenty-five Estonia Eesti Elektrijaam Narva 7.0 8.3 -15.0 7.2 0.225 thirty Germany GKM (RWE, EnBW MVV) Mannheim 6.6 7.1 -6.5 5.9 -0.826 twenty-four Germany ThyssenKrupp Duisburg 6.6 8.8 -25.0 19.6 13.027 New Hungary RWE AG, MVM, EnBW Visonta 6.2 6.2 -1.1 4.6 -1.628 New Poland BOT Elektrownia Patnow I, Konin 6.1 7.1 -13.7 6.1 0.029 New Germany E.ON Schkopau 6.1 6.3 -4.1 3.6 -2.530 twenty-nine Romania Termoelectrica Turceni 6.1 7.4 -18.5 5.6 -0.4TOTAL 348.1 387.8* -10.2 265.4 -82.7AVERAGE 11.6 12.9 -10.2 8.8 -2.8*2008 TOTAL figure is total of last year"s tip 30.Source: European Commission(Reporting by Michael Szabo; Editing by James Jukwey)
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