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Dan River Steam Station

North Carolina, United States

The 1177th largest power station in the world

697.9 MW · Capacity

The Dan River Steam Station is a power plant in Eden, North Carolina, owned by Duke Energy. The plant comprises three natural gas-fueled combustion turbines, which began operation in 1968.), and two natural gas-fueled combined cycle turbines are planned for the near future. A coal-fired electrical power plant at the site ceased operation in 2012.

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

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