Maritsa Iztok-3 power station

The Maritsa Iztok-3 power station (also known as Maritsa East 3 power station) is a 840 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Bulgaria. In 2009, the project, which began in 2003, of rehabilitation and modernization of the Maritsa Iztok-3 thermal power plant. The plant is the first and only plant in Southeast Europe to operate in full compliance with the European Union’s environmental standards.

In 2011 the Italian energy company Enel reached an agreement with ContourGlobal LP for the sale of their 73% share of Maritsa Iztok-3. The other 27% in the power plant are owned by the Bulgarian state-owned electricity supplier NEK.

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