North-West Thermal Power Plant
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60°0.95′N 30°5.52′E / 60.01583°N 30.09200°E
North-West Thermal Power Plant (Template:Lang-ru) is a power station in Saint-Petersburg, operated by the company of same name. This is a first power station in Russia to use combined cycle.
Building of the station began in 1994, and in 2000 first unit of the station was started to generate electrical energy. The gas-fired combined-cycle plant has a capacity of 900 MW. 90% of all produced electric power is exported to Finland.
The main shareholder of the power station is RAO UES. Since 2004, the power station is managed by Enel ESN Energo, a subsidiary of Enel.
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