Monceau-sur-Sambre

2 photos · 2017

2 photographs tagged Monceau-sur-Sambre, 2017.

Related: Belgium Charleroi Cooling tower Power Plant
The Monceau-sur-Sambre cooling tower in Charleroi, Belgium, stands as a relic of the region's industrial past.
The Monceau-sur-Sambre cooling tower in Charleroi, Belgium, is a 118-meter reinforced-concrete hyperboloid built in the 1960s for the nearby power station. Its flared shell and vertical ribbing were designed to cool large volumes of circulating water used by the generating plant. The associated coal-fired station was taken out of service in the early 2000s, leaving the tower as one of the most prominent surviving industrial structures in the Charleroi area.

Monceau-sur-Sambre Cooling Tower, Charleroi

The base of a cooling tower at the former Monceau-sur-Sambre power plant in Charleroi, Belgium, is overgrown with vegetation.
The base of a cooling tower at the former Monceau-sur-Sambre power plant in Charleroi, Belgium, stands amid dense vegetation on the abandoned industrial site. The tower was part of a coal-fired generating station in the Charleroi basin, one of Belgium’s major heavy-industry regions. By 2017, when this view was made, the plant had been closed and the remaining structures formed part of the post-industrial landscape left after the decline of coal-fired power generation in the area.

Charleroi Cooling Tower Base Overgrown

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