A power station is only useful so long as it has fuel to burn, and people to supply with power. This vast station in Belgium, which opened in 1921, was once one of the biggest coal-burning centers in the entire country. All of Charleroi depended upon it for their energy supply.
As we now know, coal is neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. Research would later show that it caused 10% of all the carbon dioxide emissions in the whole of Belgium, and so it was shut down in 2007.