Grevenbroich in the context of "Coal power"

A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are about 2,500 coal-fired power stations, on average capable of generating a gigawatt each. They generate about a third of the world's electricity, but cause many illnesses and the most early deaths per unit of energy produced, mainly from air pollution. World installed capacity doubled from 2000 to 2023 and increased 2% in 2023.

A coal-fired power station is a type of fossil fuel power station. The coal is usually pulverized and then burned in a pulverized coal-fired boiler. The furnace heat converts boiler water to steam, which is then used to spin turbines that turn generators. Thus chemical energy stored in coal is converted successively into thermal energy, mechanical energy and, finally, electrical energy.

Ulrike Beate Guérot (born 1964 in Grevenbroich, West Germany) is a Berlin-based German political thinker and Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL). In April 2016, the University for Continuing Education Krems appointed Ulrike Guérot as Professor for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. She was the head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. From 2021 until March 2023, she held the professorship for European Politics at the University of Bonn.

At the end of February 2023, her employment was terminated by the University of Bonn due to violations of academic standards. This followed a complaint from the university's student parliament that Guérot was damaging the university's reputation with statements justifying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and denying Ukraine its right to self-defense. Guérot appealed against the judgment of the first instance of the resulting labor court case which had confirmed the dismissal but on 30 September 2025 it was announced that the appeal had been rejected, making the termination final.