April 7 (SeeNews) - Thermal power plant AES Galabovo and Saint Nikola Wind Farm, both owned by AES Bulgaria, produced electricity covering 11.5% of the country's electricity consumption in the March 30-April 5 period, the company said on Tuesday.
The coal-fired power plant and the wind farm have produced a total of 86,900 MWh of electricity during the period which was the third week of a countrywide state of emergency declared by the government on March 13 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, AES Bulgaria said in a statement.
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In the meantime, AES Bulgaria has taken all necessary precautions to ensure the safety of its employees in the context of the spread of the disease, it said.
The Saint Nikola Wind Farm located near the town of Kavarna, on the Black Sea coast, consists of 52 turbines of 3 MW each. It was built in 2009 and commenced operations in 2010. The wind farm is operated by AES Geo Energy, which is majority-owned by AES Bulgaria.
In 1999, a unit of U.S.-based energy conglomerate AES Corporation purchased the majority interest in Bulgaria's Maritsa East 1 project, subsequently renamed AES Galabovo in 2009. AES completed the full acquisition of the 600 MW thermal power plant from Ireland's Consolidated Continental Commerce Limited (3C) in 2005.