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Kirishi Power Station

Kirishi Power Station (Russian: Киришская ГРЭС) is a thermal power station (GRES) at the town of Kirishi, Kirishsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The power plant is located adjacent to a larger Kirishi oil refinery. 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 with total increase of capacity 500 MW and efficiency 20%. The heating capacity is 1,234 Gcal/h.[citation needed]

Kirishskya GRES has two 320 metres (1,050 ft) tall flue gas stacks, they belong to the tallest chimneys at Russia.[citation needed]

On 24 September 1960, the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union passed a resolution for the construction of Kirishi Oil Refinery and the power station. The construction began in 1961.

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