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Geothermal power station

Recorded year1913

At Larderello in Italy, Piero Ginori Conti's plant turns volcanic steam into electricity, after he lit the first geothermal bulbs there in 1904.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.