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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
South Helwan power station
29th-largest power plant in Egypt of 118 · top 6% worldwide (#1,596 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Upper Egypt Electricity Production Co
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 1,950 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2018
Comparable power plants · Egypt · 118 ranked
- #1Renergy Sinia solar farm15.0 GW · solar
- #27ACWA Hurghada wind farm2.0 GW · wind
- #28Alcazar-Zaafarana wind farm2.0 GW · wind
- #29South Helwan power station1.9 GW · gas
- #306 October power plant1.5 GW · gas
- #31Cairo North power plant1.5 GW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Cairo West Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 39 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- 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
- Helwan Cement Plant3.9 km · Cement Plant
- Cairo South power plant4.9 km · Power Plant · 495 MW · gas
- Egyptian Iron & Steel Company Cairo plant8.6 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- El-Tebeen power plant8.9 km · Power Plant · 700 MW · gas
- Tura Cement Plant9.3 km · Cement Plant
- HFC El-Tebbin-Helwan Ammonia Plant10.0 km · Chemical Plant
- Petroshahd Oil Pipeline11 km · Pipeline
- New Administrative Capital–Dahshur Gas Pipeline13 km · Pipeline
- Abu Gharadig–Dahshour (1) Gas Pipeline13 km · Pipeline
- 500 kV line18 km · Transmission Line
- Cairo Governorate Desert Cement Plant20 km · Cement Plant
- Fortescue Green Hydrogen solar farm24 km · Power Plant · 4.6 GW · solar
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)