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Yangshupu Power Plant

Shanghai, China

The Yangshupu Power Plant (pinyin: yángshùpǔ Fādiànchǎng) was a coal-fired power station in Shanghai, China. The power station was commissioned in 1911 by a British businessman. It was the Far East's first power plant. The city closed some generation machines of the Yangshupu Power Plant in 2008 and closed this power plant officially in 2010. Because Shanghai plans to reduce its overall COD discharge from about 302,000 tons in 2006 to 259,000 tons in 2010.

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

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