The Los Barrios Power Plant coal-fired
power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the electricity generation, generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electr ...
is based on the
Rankine Cycle
The Rankine cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle describing the process by which certain heat engines, such as steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines, allow mechanical work to be extracted from a fluid as it moves between a heat sour ...
. It is located in the municipality of
Los Barrios in southern Spain, next to the
Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery.
The plant is kept in reserve for Spain's electricity grid. It provides direct employment to over 200 employees and it has a capacity of 567.5 MW.
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Coal-fired power stations in Spain
Los Barrios
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