Facilities that generate electricity from the earth's interior heat, including Larderello, the field where geothermal electricity began in 1904, and The Geysers, the largest complex of geothermal power plants in the world. Belongs here: a facility whose generating technology draws on underground heat or steam.
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1. Wikipedia: Geothermal power station
WikipediaGeothermal power / Geothermal power station, History and development section, commercial station sentence
Later, in 1911, the world's first commercial geothermal power station was built there.
Geothermal power / Geothermal power station, History and development section, working fluid sentence
Geothermal power stations are similar to other steam turbine thermal power stations in that heat from a fuel source (in geothermal's case, the Earth's core) is used to heat water or another working fluid.
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