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Alto Valle thermal power plant

The Alto Valle Thermal Central is a thermal power station located in the city of Neuquén, Argentina (northwestern Patagonia, Comahue region).

Angren, Uzbekistan

A notable industrial town, it has a large construction-materials industry, a rubber processing plant and a power station.

Castielertobel Viaduct

By contrast, a potential rock fall at the uphill portal of the Bärenfalle-Tunnel threatened to block passage through the tunnel just at the moment when transport of machinery to the Lüen power station was due to begin.

Chu Guiting

He also taught classes for a wide range of companies including the Bank of China, the Communications Bank, the Government's Public Security Department, the Shanghai Electric Cable Factory, the Poplar Tree Beach Power Plant, and the Eternal Peace Company.

Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant

The Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant (also known as Estehlal Nuclear Power Plant) is a planned nuclear power plant located about 70 kilometers south of Ahvaz, Iran at the Karun river.

Dee Estuary

Notable among these are Shotton Steel, formerly owned by John Summers & Sons, and now owned by Tata Steel; the gas fired power station at Connah's Quay; three separate paper mills; a chemical manufacturing plant; and numerous smaller manufacturing industries.

Drax Group

The company's principal subsidiary is Drax Power Limited, owner of the Drax power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe which supplies about 7% of UK electrical consumption.

Emergence BioEnergy

Founded by Iqbal Quadir, of GrameenPhone fame, Emergence BioEnergy plans on using a specially designed Stirling engine, in order to create small 1 kW power stations to serve individual villages rather than relying on a traditional centralized power grid.

French Island Generating Plant

French Island Generating Plant is a waste fired electrical power station located on French Island in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Gavin Power Plant

General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power.

Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station

The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage power station in the Thüringer Mountains at the upper run of the river Schwarza in Goldisthal, Germany.

Great Yarmouth Power Station

Great Yarmouth Power Station is Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station on South Denes Road in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk with a maximum output of 420MW electricity, opened in 2001.

Hassi R'Mel integrated solar combined cycle power station

The Hassi R'Mel integrated solar combined cycle power station is a hybrid power station near Hassi R'Mel in Algeria.

Jinping-I Hydropower Station

The Jinping 1 power station is on the border of the Yanyuan and Muli districts in the autonomous Liangshan Yi area of the Sichuan province.

La Coma i la Pedra

The local economy is traditionally based around livestock raising, although there is also a ski resort in the pyrenean massif of Port del Comte and a power station at Gafa.

Mistel

As part of Operation Iron Hammer in late 1943 and early 1944, Mistels were selected to carry out key raids against Soviet weapons-manufacturing facilities—specifically, electricity-generating power stations around Moscow and Gorky.

Paka, Malaysia

Paka is more popularly known as the home for the largest power station in Malaysia run by the national power company, Tenaga Nasional.

Sakthi Sugars

Sakthi Sugars was found in 1961 and started producing sugar from 1964, and now produces various kinds of sugar, industrial alcohol, ethanol, power stations, soybean products, and bio earth.

The Tower King

Tempest, Spencer, and their army slowly regained control over parts of central London, encountering a hospital containing medical staff who had become insane due to events and had started a cult around worship of human organs; a group called the Wreckers who drove hand-cranked diesel-powered tanks and trains; and an 'electric temple' inside a power station, within which another deranged group of people worshipped electricity, pretending it to still exist.


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Atiamuri

Atiamuri Power Station is a hydroelectric power station on the Waikato River owned by Mighty River Power.

Atiamuri Power Station

Atiamuri electricity also is distributed to the Bay of Plenty via the twin-circuit Atiamuri to Tarukenga (near Rotorua) line (ATI-TRK-A) originating from the power station.

Bang Bamru Railway Station

Bang Bamru Station originally opened as a single wooden building with concrete platforms (1968-dated pictures) with a junction for a rail line to Northern Phra Nakhon Power Station at Bang Kruai for Lignite Coal trains from the Mae Mo Mines, Lampang.

Battle of Bakenlaagte

The Bakenlaagte battlefield is located on the Kriel-Kinross road at the intersection of the R547 and R580 roads in Mpumalanga Province, just south of Matla Power Station.

Bornholm Cable

The power grid of Bornholm consists of a 60 kV-ring line connecting the substations Hasle, Olsker, Østerlars, Dalslunde, Bodilsker, Aakirkeby, Rønne-Syd, Rønne Power Station, Viadukten, Snorrebakken.

Bullaburra, New South Wales

The Railway Department had agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council from the power station at Lithgow and a transmission line was put through from Blackheath to Lawson with a track to provide maintenance access.

Cillit Bang

In August 2009 it was revealed that household cleaners such as Cillit Bang and Mr. Muscle have been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

Coloane A Power Station

To ease the access leading to the power station, the Government of Macau approved the new construction of access road in 2009.

Copisa

Copisa increased its specialisation in the energy sector, with projects such as the thermal power station in Utrillas (Teruel Province) and the thermal power station in Sant Adrià de Besòs.

Dětmarovice

The power station is situated on an important main railway line from Prague/Vienna to Warsaw.

DieselHouse

During World War II a resistance group consisting of workers at the power station used the engine for hiding weapons.

Entracque Power Plant

The Entracque Power Plant, also known as The Upper Gesso Plant, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located in Valle Gesso just south of Entracque, Italy.

Frances Simpson Stevens

Very little of Stevens' art has survived, one work that has is Dynamic Velocity of Interborough Rapid Transit Power Station at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Guthega Power Station

The power station's purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and it is the first completed and smallest of the seven hydroelectric power stations that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Hasdeo Thermal Power Station

The Hasdeo Thermal Power Station is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal fired power station at Korba in Chhattisgarh, India.

Huxley Hill Wind Farm

Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, of around 1600 residents, owned by Hydro Tasmania, which supplements the four diesel generators with a combined capacity of 6 MW at Currie Power Station.

Irsching Power Station

Irsching Power Station is close to the city of Vohburg, Germany and is operated as a so-called peak load power station.

Island Generating Station

The Power Station consists of one 254 MW gas turbine (supplied by ABB),

Jimmy Crespo

An album was recorded at the Power Station in NYC and was produced by Tony Bongiovi, but it has never been released.

KEYU

KEYU, known locally as Univisión Amarillo or Univisión 41, is a Spanish-language television station in Borger, Texas, serving the Amarillo market on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision, and on analog low-power station KEYU-LP channel 41.

Konakovo Power Station

Konakovo Power Station (Konakovskaya GRES) is a GRES (a type of thermal power plant) with a generating capacity of 2520 Megawatt near Konakovo in Russia.

Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station

The Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage power power station near Gemünden am Main at the Main in the under-Frankish district Main Spessart (Bavaria), which went in service in 1976.

Laverton North Power Station

Laverton North Power Station is a power station in Laverton, on the outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria.

Leigh Creek, South Australia

ETSA ordered boilers capable of burning Leigh Creek coal for the Osborne Power Station near Port Adelaide and, after thorough investigations, decided to establish a power station at Port Augusta to burn Leigh Creek coal exclusively.

Leonard Pearce

For the corporation, Pearce chose the site of a new power station at Barton and supervised its construction to his designs.

Melo HVDC Back-to-back station

From the Melo station a 128 kilometres long 525 kV powerline, of which 65 km are situated in Uruguay, runs to a newly built 525 kV/230 kV substation close to the Candiota power station, which contains some harmonic filters.

Merry-go-round train

This is the nickname (from its appearance) given to the automatic door opening/closing equipment located on the approach to and from the bunker in the power station.

Mmamabula

Mmamabula is a planned coal mine and coal-fired power station to the east of the main road and rail corridor in Botswana between Gaborone and Francistown and south of the Serorome River.

Moura Photovoltaic Power Station

The Moura Photovoltaic Power Station (also known as Amareleja Photovoltaic Power Station) is a large photovoltaic power station in Amareleja, in the municipality of Moura, Portugal.

MV Arctic Sunrise

On 30 August 2007, Arctic Sunrise was involved in a protest against the Canadian laker Algomarine off of Nanticoke, Ontario where she was attempting to enter harbor with a load of coal for the power station.

NIGELEC

NIGELEC operates four power plants: Niamey I and Niamey II (in Niamey proper and the suburb of Goudel), the Malbaza Power Station (at Malbaza, near Tahoua) and the Zinder & Maradi Thermal Power Station (near Zinder).

Oji River

After the Nigeria - Biafra civil war (in which over 1 million people died, mainly children of the Igbo tribe who were killed by the Nigeria government policy with the help of the British government), the thermal power station was upgraded to 30MW, supplying electricity the immediate area and also some parts of Udi, Achi area.

Padiham Power Station

Although the rail line had closed for passengers connecting Padiham railway station to Burnley and Blackburn in 1957, the section to the power station was retained for coal deliveries.

Phil Costa

During 2009, Costa came under heavy criticism from Wollondilly Councillor Benn Banasik, Mayor of Camden Council Chris Patterson and Campbelltown Councillor Jai Rowell for the Labor Government's approval of the AGL Power Station at Appin.

Porto Torres

Fiume Santo, a 1,040 MW power station owned by E.ON, is a 5–10 km west from the port, in the municipality of Sassari.

Provence Power Station

Provence Power Station is a 868 MW coal-fired power station at Gardanne, France.

Pyongchon-guyok

It is probably best known as the location of the P'yongchon Thermal Power Station, which is the electricity source for Pyongyang's central neighborhoods.

Rashid Maidin

While employed at the power station, he studied basic electrics and eventually obtained a first-class electrical chargeman certificate.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station

On 10 April 2007, eleven environmental activists from a group called Eastside Climate Action were arrested after they entered the power station and climbed onto equipment in order to draw attention to greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations, when E.ON UK were proposing to build more.

Richborough Power Station

The power station can be seen in several scenes of the 2008 film Son of Rambow, and was the location for the 2003 Channel 4 television series Full Metal Challenge.

Rochester Raiders

The Raiders were one of two 2006 teams in the GLIFL that held a television contract, at the time with WBGT-CA, a local low-power station.

Silston Cory-Wright

This was a similar power station to that planned for the first hydroelectric station to be built by the New Zealand Government, at Lake Coleridge in the South Island.

Songshan Station

March 30, 1936: Songshan Airport Line (until May 1, 1966 Songshan Power Station Line) begins operation from Songshan Station to Taipei Songshan Airport.

SoWa

The Romanesque and Gothic Revival structure was the world’s largest electrical power station at the time and later became a trolley barn.

Spy Hill Power Plant

The Power Station consists of two turbines (supplied by General Electric LM6000), that operate in a simple cycle configuration.

Umroli

Tarapur Industrial Estate, Tarapur Atomic Power Station and a Thermal Power Station owned by Reliance Energy Limited are located close by.

Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant

The nuclear power station Unterweser is a nuclear power plant in Kleinensiel (Municipality of Stadland), close to Nordenham.

Uranquinty Power Station

On 19 January 2009 Origin Energy Limited announced that the Uranquinty Power Station was commissioned with eight people employed to operate the facility.

On 4 July 2008 Babcock and Brown Power announced that it had sold the 640 megawatt gas-fired Uranquinty power station in NSW for $700 million to Origin Energy.