Vemork
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thumb|upright=1.3|250 px|Site of the plant in 2003
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- Instance of
- industrial heritage site
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Tinn
- Elevation
- 104
- Body of water
- Skien watershed
- Official website
- nia.no/en/vemork
- Image
- Vemork nye kraftstasjon.JPG
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- Commons category
- Vemork
- nominal power output
- 204
- service entry
- 1971-00-00
- annual energy output
- 953
- hydraulic head
- 300
- throughput
- 75.8
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thumb|upright=1.3|250 px|Site of the plant in 2003
Vemork is a hydroelectric power plant and a museum outside the town of Rjukan in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The plant was built by Norsk Hydro and opened in 1911, its main purpose being to fix nitrogen for the production of fertilizer. At opening, it was the world's largest power plant with a capacity of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vemork” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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