BUDAPEST THERMAL POWER PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 1, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INT,EL:LIuEN E AGENL;Y
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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Hungary
Budapest Thermal Power Plants
REPORT
DATE DISTR. i FEB 1960
NO. PAGES 2
1. The construction of several large thermal power plants in tl"5 50X1-HUM
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generation of energy will be used a second time for the Provision
of current for industry and for the heating of buildings. \~\
plants will be very economical,, not only because of the double use
of steam., but also because their boilers will burn low-quality coal
which cannot be used for other purposes.
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to the Kispest textile works,, to the Red Star tractor factory, and
to the Patyolat linen mill. The K8banya plant will serve heat to
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20 factories, The Obuda thermal plant will provi
(Wwrmeenergie) to the textile mills in the vicinity of the Arpad
Bridge, to the Ganz factory, and to the various large housing develop-
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plant at the junction of the Rakos Creek and the Vaci U
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heat to the Lang factory and to the housing pro
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built on the Pest side of the Arpad Bridge. The thermal plant
and of the Budafok distillery and the projected
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K$banya
Ferencvaros thermal plant will Provide thermal power to four to six
factories in the vicinity,
3. Further reaction turbine thermal power plants will be built by the
Csepel paper mill,, by the pharmaceutical plants in Ujpest, by the
Hungaria chemical factory,, and by the Csepel automotive plant. The
thermal plants of the Csepel paper mill and of the Hungaria chemical
factory will be completed by the first half of 1960. Another six
will be completed by the end of 1961. The rest will be ready by 1965.
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The new plants will together provide more energy than
Banhida power plant.
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