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Voltaic pile

The voltaic pile, also known as Volta's pile, is a stack of zinc and copper discs invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 as the first continuous electric current source.

Voltalia

Voltalia is a France-based independent renewable energy producer headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2005, it operates about 2.9 GW of capacity across 15 regions on three continents.

Volzhsky Automobile CHP power station

The Volzhsky Automobile CHP power station (ТЭЦ ВАЗа) is a gas-fired combined heat and power plant in Tolyatti, Russia, built to supply the AvtoVAZ car plant.

Vorkutaugol

Vorkutaugol, or JSC Vorkutaugol, is a Russian coal mining company in Vorkuta that produces hard coking coal in the Pechora basin north of the Arctic Circle.

Vorlich Gas Field

Vorlich is an offshore oil and gas field in the UK Central North Sea, discovered by BP and operated by Ithaca Energy, producing from 2020 to 2026.

Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye Oil Field

Vostochno-Lambeishorskoye (Восточно-Ламбейшорское) is an oil field in the Komi Republic, Russia, in the Timan-Pechora province, discovered by LUKOIL in 2011, whose reserves grew more than sixfold to 42 million tons by 2016.

Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe Oil and Gas Field

Vostochno-Messoyakhskoe, also called East Messoyakha, is an oil and gas condensate field on the Gydan Peninsula in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets region, the northernmost producing onshore oil field in the country.

Vostochno-Perevalnoe Oil and Gas Field

Vostochno-Perevalnoe is a small, structurally simple oil and gas field in the Surgut district of West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1990 and known for its water-gas injection pilots and on-site 28 MW power plant.

Vostochno-Surgutskoye field

Vostochno-Surgutskoye field (Восточно-Сургутское месторождение) is a large, complex oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, discovered in 1977 and operated by RN-Yuganskneftegaz and Surgutneftegaz.

Vostochno-Tarkosalinskoye Oil and Gas Field

The Vostochno-Tarkosalinskoye field (Восточно-Таркосалинское) is an oil, gas, and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets region of Western Siberia, discovered in 1971 and the field with which NOVATEK began operations in 1994.

Vostochny Coal Mine

Vostochny Coal Mine (Russian: разрез Восточный, "Vostochny open-pit mine") is a surface anthracite coal mine in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, opened in 2016 on the Kolyvanskoye deposit of the Gorlovsky coal basin.

Vostochny Coal Mine (Kazakhstan)

Vostochny Coal Mine (разрез Восточный) is a large surface coal mine at Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, opened in 1985 and owned by Eurasian Energy Corporation since 1996.

Votkinsk Hydroelectric Station

The Votkinsk Hydroelectric Station (Воткинская ГЭС) is a RusHydro-run hydroelectric plant on the Kama River near Chaykovsky, Perm Krai, Russia, with ten Kaplan units totaling 1,135 MW.

Vozeiskoye Oil Field

The Vozeiskoye oil field (Возейское) is a large oil field in the Usinsk district of the Komi Republic, Russia, discovered in 1971 with reserves of about 350 million tonnes, operated by LUKOIL-Komi.

VRB Energy

VRB Energy is a clean technology company majority-owned by Ivanhoe Electric that builds vanadium redox flow battery storage systems, with more than 500 MWh installed or in development.

VRLA battery

A VRLA battery, also called a sealed lead-acid or SLA battery, is a valve-regulated lead-acid battery with immobilized electrolyte, widely used in uninterruptible power supplies since the 1960s.

Vrsany Coal Mine

Vrsany Coal Mine (Lom Vršany) is a large surface lignite mine in the Most District, Czech Republic, opened in 1978 and supplying the Počerady power plant.

Vulcan Energy

Vulcan Energy is an Australian-listed lithium chemicals and renewable energy company founded in 2018, whose Lionheart project in Germany's Upper Rhine Valley targets first lithium production in 2028.

Vung Ang power station

Vung Ang power station (Nhà máy nhiệt điện Vũng Áng) is a coal- and gas-fired power complex in the Vung Ang Economic Zone, Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam.

VVER (водо-водяной энергетический реактор)

VVER, also written WWER, is the Soviet and Russian family of pressurized water reactors in which light water serves as both coolant and moderator, first commissioned in 1964.

VVER-1000

VVER-1000 (ВВЭР-1000) is a Soviet and Russian pressurized water reactor rated at about 1000 MW electric, developed by OKB Gidropress and first operated at Novovoronezh Unit 5 in 1980.

VVER-1200

The VVER-1200 is a Generation III+ pressurized water reactor developed by Rosatom in Russia, producing about 1,200 MWe and serving as the basis of most of Rosatom's export program.

VVER-TOI (V-510)

VVER-TOI (ВВЭР-ТОИ; designation V-510) is a Russian Generation III+ pressurized water reactor plant design rated at 1,300 MWe, first built at the Kursk II plant.

Vyngayakhinskoye Oil and Gas Field

Vyngayakhinskoye Oil and Gas Field (Вынгаяхинское) is an onshore oil and gas field in the Purovsky area of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1968, with production beginning in 1986.

Vysotsk LNG Terminal

Vysotsk LNG Terminal is an LNG plant at the port of Vysotsk in Russia, launched in 2019 with a capacity of 660,000 tonnes per year.

W&T Offshore

W&T Offshore, Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based independent producer of oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas, operating almost entirely offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Waad Al Shamal power station

The Waad Al Shamal power station is a 1,390 MW combined cycle plant with a 50 MW solar component in Saudi Arabia, operated by Saudi Electricity Company since 2018.

Wabamun power station

Wabamun power station was a TransAlta coal-fired plant on Lake Wabamun, Alberta, west of Edmonton, with four units totaling 537 MW, retired between 2002 and 2010 and demolished in 2011.

Wabash River Generating Station

Wabash River Generating Station is a power station in Terre Haute, Indiana, known for hosting one of two IGCC demonstration plants in the United States.

Wafa-Mellitah Gas Pipeline

The Wafa-Mellitah Gas Pipeline is a 32-inch natural gas pipeline in western Libya carrying gas from the Wafa desert field to Mellitah on the Mediterranean coast for export.