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Chorzów Power Station

Chorzów, Poland

The 1996th largest power station in the world

226 MW · Capacity

Chorzów power station is a thermal power plant located in Chorzów, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It has been in operation since 1898, since 2003 under the name Elcho. Currently (2012), the plant produces electrical power (generating capacity of 204 MW) as well as heat (500 MW) for district heating, based on hard coal.

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

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