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Zhongning Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant
350th-largest grid storage in China of 401 · top 48% worldwide (#459 of 965)
- Owner
- Qinghai Yellow River Upstream Hydropower Development Co Ltd, Ningxia Communications Investment Group Co Ltd, China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd
- Status
- proposed
- Capacity
- 1,000 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
- #348Yuejin Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #349Zhanghewan hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #350Zhongning Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #351Zhongwei Huangcaochong hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #352Zhuanghe hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- ±800kV中宁换流站
- Its voltage
- 800 kV
- Distance
- 39 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 800 kV HVDC
- Line operator
- 国家电网
- 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
- Zhongning Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · hydro
- Ningxia Zhongning Xinbaozhen wind farm15 km · Power Plant · 101 MW · wind
- Ningxia Liujiagouwan Coal Mine (Surface Part)16 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Ningxia Zhongning Saima Cement Co Ltd Cement Plant17 km · Cement Plant
- Ningxia Tongxin CNNC solar farm17 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Meizhou Ningjiang Cement Limited Company Meizhou Cement Plant21 km · Cement Plant
- 750 kV line24 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)