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Thermal power plant Kolubara

Lazarevac City Municipality, Serbia

The 2168th largest power station in the world

175 MW · Capacity

Thermal power plant Kolubara is a coal-fired plant in central Serbia located in a village Veliki Crljeni ca. 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Belgrade. Operations in it started in 1956. Capacity of installed generators reaches 270 MW. Thermal power plant (TPP) Kolubara is one of three TPP's operated by the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) through the company MB "Kolubara", plc (in Serbian: RB „Kolubara“d.o.o) in the Kolubara coal basin. Next to it there are power plants Nikola Tesla A & B, as well as Morava. All three power plants use the lignite from the local basin as their fuel. This lignite is mined in four mines. Electricity production of this location reaches 52% of Serbian yearly energy consumption.

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