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Greenwich Power Station

Royal Borough of Greenwich, United Kingdom

The 2247th largest power station in the world

155 MW · Capacity

Greenwich Power Station is a standby gas and formerly oil and coal-fired power station by the River Thames at Greenwich in south-east London. Originally constructed to supply power for London's tram system, since 1988 it has been London Underground's central emergency power supply, providing power if there is partial or total loss of National Grid supplies.

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

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