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Vasilikos Power Station

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combined with one steam turbogenerator. The capacity of this unit reaches 220 MW. The unit came online using diesel fuel as a stopgap until a gas terminal is built in Cyprus. A fifth unit, identical to the fourth one was under construction and the tests of the gas turbines were completed prior
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The explosion that severely damaged the power station was heard up to 50 kilometres (31 mi) away and is believed to have involved at least 2,000 tonnes of munitions. With the exception of the gas turbine, all other generators were damaged and remained offline for more than one year.
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steam turbogenerators each with a capacity of 125 MW and a gas turbine at 35 MW. Steam is produced in heavy fuel oil-fired boilers made by
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The second phase consists of a single steam turbogenerator at 130 MW that came online in 2005. The boiler for this was supplied by
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and also burns heavy fuel oil. This was not convertible to coal burning and so it was physically smaller than the other two units.
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of the power station is 138 metres (453 ft) high and is the second tallest structure in Cyprus.
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and with an installed capacity of 640 MW, it was still under development prior to the
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that created fears of oil shortages, but eventually this option was not exercised.
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technology for the fourth unit of the plant. It consists of two gas turbines by
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The Power station, two days after the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion
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The first phase came online in the early 2000s and consists of two
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