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unusual facts about thermal power station



ArmRosGazprom

To avoid a higher prizes level for natural gas, the Armenian government had to make some concessions that the Iran-Armenia Natural Gas Pipeline and the 5th unit of Hrazdan TPS (Thermal Power Station) get under control of ARG.

Bogatynia

Today Bogatynia is one of the richest towns per capita in Poland, due to its two principal enterprises: the Turów Coal Mine, a large open-pit on the grounds of the former Rybarzowice village (Reibersdorf), and the associated thermal power station, Elektrownia Turów, operated by the Polska Grupa Energetyczna, the third-largest of the country.

Boiler feedwater

At thermal power stations the feedwater is usually stored, pre-heated and conditioned in a feedwater tank and supplied to the boiler by a boiler feedwater pump.

Ekibastuz GRES-1

Ekibastuz GRES-1 (also known as: AES-Ekibastuz) is a 4,000 MW coal-fired thermal power station (GRES) at Ekibastusz, Kazakhstan.

GDF Suez

With the stated aim of reaching a total production capacity of 10GW by 2013, three gas-fired thermal power plants at Fos-sur-Mer, Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Brieuc are currently in various stages of development, as is a solar panel project in Curbans.

Kirishi Power Station

Kirishi Power Station (Kirishskya GRES) is a thermal power station (GRES) at the town of Kirishi, Kirishsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

Kozienice Power Station

The Kozienice Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station in Świerże Górne near Kozienice, Poland.


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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.

Frank Shuman

Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt (1912-1913).

Hasdeo Thermal Power Station

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

National Power Training Institute

With this the Thermal Power Station Personnel Training Institutes under the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) were carved out and formed into a separate autonomous body under the Ministry of Power as the Power Engineers Training Society (PETS) in 1980 to give more importance to Power Training and to have an accelerated growth of the Institutes.

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.

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.

Raichur Thermal Power Station

The project to construct the thermal power station was finalized in 1978 after an MOU was signed between KPCL and the Karnataka State Electricity Board.

Talcher

The establishment of Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS), Heavy Water Plant and the Collieries (MCL) have enhanced the importance of the place.

Umroli

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