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- 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
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Power Plant
Salzgitter power station
133rd-largest power plant in Germany of 335 · top 34% worldwide (#9,970 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 400 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 1941
Comparable power plants · Germany · 335 ranked
- #1Gundremmingen nuclear power plant2.9 GW · nuclear
- #131Trianel Borkum wind farm403 MW · wind
- #132Veja Mate wind farm402 MW · wind
- #133Salzgitter power station400 MW · gas
- #134BARD Offshore wind farm400 MW · wind
- #135Global Tech wind farm400 MW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Kabelübergangsanlage Nord
- Its voltage
- 380 kV
- Distance
- 9.5 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 380 kV
- Line operator
- TenneT TSO
- Substations in range
- 9
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
- Salzgitter Flachstahl steel plant1.6 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Ostfalen-Achse6.2 km · Transmission Line
- 380 kV line9.3 km · Transmission Line
- Kabelübergangsanlage Nord9.5 km · Substation / Converter
- UW-Liedingen9.6 km · Substation / Converter
- Wahle 380 kV15 km · Substation / Converter
- Algermissen15 km · Transmission Line
- Braunschweig Mitte power station16 km · Power Plant · 177 MW · gas
- Gauß-IT-Zentrum17 km · Data Centre
- Salzgitter Peiner Träger Peine steel plant20 km · Iron & Steel Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)