Kakanj Power Plant
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Kakanj Thermal Power Plant is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

's largest coal-fired
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 power plant having an installed electric capacity of 450 MW and producing around 2.3 billion Kwh of electricity per year. The power plant is operated by Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine
Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine
Elektroprivreda Bosne i Hercegovine is the largest energy company in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The company has an installed capacity of 1,682 MW and generates 6.54 TWh of electricity in lignite-fired thermal power plants 1,165 MW, and hydro power plants 517 MW...

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The chimney of Kakanj Power Plant is 300 metres tall and is one of the tallest man-made objects built in former Yugoslavia.
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