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Grid Storage
Xiaping hydroelectric plant
19th-largest grid storage in China of 401 · top 3% worldwide (#26 of 965)
- Owner
- China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage Co Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 2,400 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · China · 401 ranked
- #1Yebatan Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant4.5 GW
- #17Tongde hydroelectric plant2.4 GW
- #18Wufeng Taiping hydroelectric plant2.4 GW
- #19Xiaping hydroelectric plant2.4 GW
- #20Yangjiang hydroelectric plant2.4 GW
- #21Yanglin hydroelectric plant2.4 GW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- 500kV花都变电站
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 13 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 800 kV HVDC
- Substations in range
- 3
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Xiaping hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 2.4 GW · hydro
- Huaneng Qingyuan power station3.4 km · Power Plant · 1.4 GW · gas
- Huaneng Qingyuan power station3.4 km · Power Plant · 240 MW · gas
- 500 kV line6.6 km · Transmission Line
- Shengli (Qingyuan) Steel Products Co., Ltd.7.1 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Guangdong Guixin Steel Co Ltd10 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Guangdong Taiye Hongda Steel Co., Ltd.11 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- 500kV花都变电站13 km · Substation / Converter
- 兴仁至宝安直流18 km · Transmission Line
- Qingyuan hydroelectric plant21 km · Grid Storage · 1.3 GW
- HVDC Xiluodu-Guangdong21 km · Transmission Line
- Guangdong Pearl River Delta gas pipeline network — Guangzhou-Zhaoqing Pipeline24 km · Pipeline
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)