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The Boxberg power plant is a German lignite-fired power plant in Boxberg O.L. in Upper Lusatia in the Lusatian lignite mining region. During its highest expansion stage in the 1980s, it was the largest coal-fired power plant in the GDR, with a nominal output of 3520 megawatts

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sylvio Dittrich

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