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Grid Storage
Gabal Ataqah hydroelectric plant
48th-largest grid storage worldwide · top 5% worldwide (#48 of 965)
- Operator
- Sinohydro
- Owner
- Egyptian Ministry of Electricity
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 2,100 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · worldwide · 965 ranked
- #1Yebatan Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant4.5 GW
- #46Ruoqiang hydroelectric plant2.1 GW
- #47Ulan Maodu Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant2.1 GW
- #48Gabal Ataqah hydroelectric plant2.1 GW
- #49Patgaon hydroelectric plant2.1 GW
- #50Rouni hydroelectric plant2.1 GW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- محطة كهرباء السويس
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 17 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Substations in range
- 1
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
- Gabal Ataqah hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 2.1 GW · hydro
- 500 kV line8.5 km · Transmission Line
- Suez Steel Solb Misr Attaka plant17 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- محطة كهرباء السويس17 km · Substation / Converter
- Ataka power plant19 km · Power Plant · 640 MW · gas
- Ataka Steam power plant19 km · Power Plant · 600 MW · gas
- HVDC Saudi Arabia-Egypt24 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)