The Rovinari Power Station is one of the largest electricity producers in
Romania
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, operating with two units and one mothballed unit of 330
MW each, thus totaling an installed capacity of 990 MW.
The power plant is situated in
Gorj County
Gorj County () is a county () of Romania, in Oltenia, with its capital city at Târgu Jiu. ''Gorj'' comes from the Slavic ''Gornji'' Jiu (“upper Jiu”), in contrast with Dolnji (“lower Jiu”).
Demographics
At the 2011 census, the count ...
(Southwestern Romania), on the banks of the
Jiu River
The Jiu (; ; ; ) is a river in southern Romania. It is formed near Petroșani by the confluence of headwaters Jiul de Vest and Jiul de Est.
It flows southward through the Romanian counties Hunedoara, Gorj, Mehedinți and Dolj before flowing ...
, near
Târgu Jiu
Târgu Jiu (, is the capital city, capital of Gorj County in the Oltenia region of Romania. It is situated on the Southern Sub-Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians, on the banks of the river Jiu (river), Jiu. Eight localities are administered by the ...
.
Future extensions
The power plant expansion plans, which would have initially added a new 500 MW unit, then later changed to 600MW with construction work done by China Huadian Engineering was cancelled. Other important works include the fitting of several
sulfur
Sulfur ( American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphur ( Commonwealth spelling) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms ...
filters at the existing power groups at a total cost of
US$
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250 million.
Operations
Unit 5 is currently being modernized until 31 December 2023, after which it will be back in operation.
Plans to decommission unit 3 by December 2022 were postponed due to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
and energy security concerns. It was finally shutdown on 1 June 2023, and its sulfur filters will be reused for the unit 5 modernization.
All units will be decommissioned by 2030, according to the plans of reorganization by Complexul Energetic Olteni
See also
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List of power stations in Romania
This is a list of the main thermal power plants in Romania which at the end of 2006 had a total generating capacity of 11.335 Watt#Megawatt, MW.
Coal/oil/gas
Hydroelectric
Nuclear
Wind farms
Solar farms
See also
*Energy in ...
References
External links
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Short history of the powerplant (in Romanian)
Coal-fired power stations in Romania
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