The Doiceşti Power Station was a large

thermal power plant A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e.g., coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, etc.) is converted to electrical energy. The heat ...

located in

Doicești Doicești is a commune in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to th ...

, with seven generation groups, six of twenty MW each and two of 200 MW resulting in a total

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...

generation capacity of 520 MW. It used

Lignite Lignite (derived from Latin ''lignum'' meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35% and is considered the lowest ...

as main fuel supplemented by

Natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

. The chimney used by the 200 MW units was 208 metres tall. It was demolished to clear the site for the new project using a

Small modular reactor The small modular reactor (SMR) is a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation, and then used to power buildings or other commercial operations. The term SMR refers t ...

Operations

Extension plans

In 2011 Termoelectrica, the owner of the powerplant, and China Huadian Engineering agreed to build two new units of 250 MW each. The extension was cancelled in 2014 after the dissolution of Termoelectrica. Doicești location was selected to implement

NuScale Power NuScale Power Corporation is a publicly traded American company that designs and markets small modular reactors (SMRs). It is headquartered in Tigard, Oregon. The company's VOYGR power plant, which uses 50 MWe modules and scales to 12 modules ( ...

VOYGR-6 model of a nuclear power plant that will deploy six SMRs of 77 MW each with a total capacity of 462 MW. For this project

Nuclearelectrica SN "Nuclearelectrica" S.A. (SNN) is a partially state-owned Romania, Romanian nuclear energy company incorporated in 1998 by the reorganization of RENEL. The company is under the authority of the Government of Romania, Ministry of Energy, and th ...

formed a new company RoPower, with equal shares with the plant owner Nova Power&Gas. RoPower signed the contract with

for phase 1 of front-end engineering and design.

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