Kirishi Power Station (Kirishskya GRES) is a

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) at the town of

Kirishi Kirishi (russian: Ки́риши, ) is a town and the administrative center of Kirishsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volkhov River, southeast of St. Petersburg. Population: It was previously kno ...

Kirishsky District Kirishsky District (russian: Ки́ришский райо́н) is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #49-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central southern part of the obl ...

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. The power plant is located adjacent to a larger Kirishi oil refinery.Модернизация
конденсационной части Киришской ГРЭС на базе парогазовой технологии Installed electrical capacity of the power station reached 2595 MW after completion of modernization program for unit 6 in 2011, which included installation of two gas turbines for this unit to utilize

combined cycle A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy. On land, when used to make electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turb ...

with total increase of capacity 500 MW and efficiency 20%.Энергоблок ПГУ-800 Киришской ГРЭС присоединен к электросетям для завершения ряда пуско-наладочных работ
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, 25.07.2011'' The heating capacity is 1,234 Gcal/h. Kirishskya GRES has two tall

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s, they belong to the tallest chimneys at Russia.

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