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Asset classes
- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- 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
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Broadlands solar farm
46th-largest power plant in South Africa of 172 · top 31% worldwide (#8,971 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Blue Crane Environmental
- Status
- proposed
- Capacity
- 480 MW
- Fuel
- solar
Comparable power plants · South Africa · 172 ranked
- #1JER Green Hydrogen Solar PV Project (South Africa)12.0 GW · solar
- #44Kenhardt solar farm540 MW · solar
- #45Virginia Solar Park485 MW · solar
- #46Broadlands solar farm480 MW · solar
- #47Nkwe Solar Cluster solar farm480 MW · solar
- #48Phinda power plant450 MW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Witkop Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 11 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- Eskom
- 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
- Medupi - Witkop 211 km · Transmission Line
- 400 kV line11 km · Transmission Line
- Witkop Substation11 km · Substation / Converter
- Medupi - Witkop 112 km · Transmission Line
- ABO Ndau 3 solar farm22 km · Power Plant · 120 MW · solar
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)