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Grid Storage
Gouvães hydroelectric plant
2nd-largest grid storage in Portugal of 14 · top 54% worldwide (#514 of 965)
- Owner
- Iberdrola SA
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 880 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 2022
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · Portugal · 14 ranked
- #1Minhéu hydroelectric plant1.3 GW
- #2Gouvães hydroelectric plant880 MW
- #3Venda Nova III hydroelectric plant780 MW
- #4Aguieira hydroelectric plant336 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Subestação de Gouvães
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 5.9 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- REN
- Substations in range
- 10
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
- Gouvães hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 880 MW · hydro
- Gouvães - Ribeira de Pena 35.8 km · Transmission Line
- Gouvães - Ribeira de Pena 25.8 km · Transmission Line
- Subestação de Gouvães5.9 km · Substation / Converter
- Alto Tâmega - Gouvães 15.9 km · Transmission Line
- Minhéu hydroelectric plant7.0 km · Power Plant · 1.3 GW · hydro
- Minhéu hydroelectric plant7.0 km · Grid Storage · 1.3 GW
- Posto de Corte do Alto Tâmega8.6 km · Substation / Converter
- Subestação da Central Hidroelétrica do Alto Tâmega8.9 km · Substation / Converter
- Alto Tâmega hydroelectric plant8.9 km · Power Plant · 160 MW · hydro
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Watercourse: Torno River
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)