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- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
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- Refinery279
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Grid Storage
Porąbka-Żar hydroelectric plant
4th-largest grid storage in Poland of 8 · top 63% worldwide (#607 of 965)
- Owner
- PGE Energia Odnawialna SA
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 552 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1953
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · Poland · 8 ranked
- #1Żarnowiec hydroelectric plant780 MW
- #2Młoty hydroelectric plant750 MW
- #3Rożnów II hydroelectric plant700 MW
- #4Porąbka-Żar hydroelectric plant552 MW
- #5Solina hydroelectric plant198 MW
- #6Żydowo hydroelectric plant165 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Stacja elektroenergetyczna "Byczyna" 400kV
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 43 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne
- Substations in range
- 2
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
- Porąbka-Żar hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 552 MW · hydro
- Bielsko-Biala power station12 km · Power Plant · 105 MW · coal
- Skoczów-Komorowice-Oświęcim Gas Pipeline14 km · Pipeline
- Lachowice-Stryszawa Oil and Gas Field (Poland)19 km · Oil & Gas Field
- Komorowice–Podleśna (odcinek odcięty)21 km · Transmission Line
- PG Silesia Coal Mine23 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- ZG Brzeszcze Coal Mine23 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)