Title

Welzow

Caption

Welzow, Germany, The Schwarze Pumpe coal-fired power plant looms behind the Welzow opencast lignite mine in Welzow, 02.11.2021. Along with Jaenschwalde and Boxberg, Schwarze Pumpe is one of three power plants in Lusatia whose economic infrastructure is largely dependent on coal production, Europe

Date

Nov 02, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Ute Grabowsky

Reference

BRK23D19_492

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,3Mb (3,4Mb) / 12,0in x 17,9in / 3589 x 5384 (300dpi)

Keywords

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