Alum Tulcea Power Plant | |
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Country | |
Location | Tulcea County |
Status | Approved |
Owner(s) | Alum Tulcea |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Natural gas |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 5 |
Nameplate capacity | 250 MW |
The Alum Tulcea Power Station will be a large electricity producer in Romania, having 5 natural gas-fired groups of 50 MW each totalling an installed capacity of 250 MW and an electricity generation capacity of around 0.6 TWh/year. [1] [2]
The power plant will be situated in the Tulcea County (Eastern Romania) near Alum Tulcea's industrial facility in Tulcea.
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