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Alessandro Volta thermal power station

Montalto di Castro, Italy

The 136th largest power station in the world

3.6 GW · Capacity

The Alessandro Volta Power Plant was a 3600 MW polycombustible thermal power plant located in the municipality of Montalto di Castro and owned by Enel. It was commissioned in 1989 near the unfinished Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station of which it used part of the site and the sea water intakes already built. It was decommissioned in 2019 and scheduled for disposal and is being negotiated for conversion into data centers for IT companies.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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