Drax power station

Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked

• #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
• #11Morven Offshore wind farm2.9 GW · wind
• #12Norfolk Vanguard wind farm2.8 GW · wind
• #13Drax power station2.7 GW · biomass
• #14Heysham nuclear power plant2.6 GW · nuclear
• #15Hornsea wind farm2.5 GW · wind

Grid connection · within 50 km

Nearest substation

Drax

Its voltage

400 kV

Distance

443 m

Strongest line nearby

400 kV

Substations in range

18

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

• Drax power station0 m · Power Plant · 4.2 GW · coal
• 400 kV line357 m · Transmission Line
• Drax443 m · Substation / Converter
• National Grid Drax-Thornton522 m · Transmission Line
• National Grid Drax-Thorpe Marsh563 m · Transmission Line
• Helios Renewable Energy Project solar farm5.6 km · Power Plant · 190 MW · solar
• Eggborough power station8.8 km · Power Plant · 2.1 GW · coal
• Eggborough Substation9.0 km · Substation / Converter
• Monk Fryston substation18 km · Substation / Converter

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