Abandoned Power Plant IM Drone DJI | Abandoned Places Belgium 4K

Want to visit Belgium? Probably the most visited and known Urbex spot in Belgium. Watch the full tour in Factory and the abandoned buildings. Enjoy the Drone views over and in the cooling tower and see how the drone almost got attacked by a bird..

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00:00 Drone intro
00:19 Inside the factory + drone inside
02:41 Outside Drone views
03:54 Under the Cooling tower
04:37 Drone inside and around the cooling tower
05:54 Attacked by a bird
06:29 Power lines and amazing views inside silo
07:44 Inside the abandoned administration building

What to do in Belgium:
Centrale Monceau, known by urbexers as Power Plant IM, is a former power station in Monceau-sur-Sambre, part of the Belgian municipality of Charleroi. The plant has been out of use since 2007. On the left bank of the Sambre, some machine buildings have been preserved, on the right bank the cooling tower of the power station.
 
History
The power station was built in 1921 by the Charbonnage de Monceau Fontaine and ran on coal. During the interwar period an expansion brought the capacity to 27 MW and around 1930 to 47 MW. The modern power station, fired with pulverized coal, was selected in the years 1938-40 for the experiments of engineer Albert De Smaele with the burning of schlamme (a moist residual product with quite a few inert ashes). If successful, this process would spread in Belgium.
 
In 1950 a new power station was put into operation next to the old one. The factory buildings, designed by F. and L. Vandenbroucke, consisted of three brick volumes of decreasing height, with large glazed areas. The cooling tower was located on the other side of the Sambre (right bank). An almost identical power station was built in 1953 in Marchienne-au-Pont at coal seat 19 (Saint-Martin), where the Charbonnage de Monceau Fontaine also produced electricity since 1912. Both sites were operated by Intercom (later merged into Electrabel). With a new extension in 1964, the factory buildings in Monceau were more than doubled by a gray extension.
 
In the 1970s, the plant was further expanded to allow it to run on natural gas. By 1977 the plant was the main power station in the Charleroi region.
 
After a report showing that the plant was responsible for 10% of Belgium's carbon dioxide emissions, Greenpeace protested against the plant. The plant, which had a capacity of 92 MW at the time, was closed in 2007. It served as a filming location during the filming of "De Premier", a Belgian movie by Koen van Looy. 


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