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This dimension names the place where a specific energy facility is actually located. Wikipedia notes that a power station is "an industrial facility for the generation of electric power," a facility that is always physically sited in one particular place. Browsing this way collects every facility located in the same place.

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1. Oil refinery - Wikipedia
  • Oil refinery, History section, Ploiesti sentence
    The first large refinery opened at Ploiesti, Romania, in 1856-1857.
  • Oil refinery, lead section, definition sentence
    An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.
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