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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
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Power Plant
Qaidam Desert Energy Base (Golmud East) supporting coal-fired power project
225th-largest power plant in China of 11,537 · top 3% worldwide (#728 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Huadian (Golmud) Energy Co Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 2,640 MW
- Fuel
- coal
Comparable power plants · China · 11,537 ranked
- #1Motuo hydroelectric plant60.0 GW · hydro
- #223Ma'anshan power station2.6 GW · coal
- #224Qahar Right Rear power station2.6 GW · coal
- #225Qaidam Desert Energy Base (Golmud East) supporting coal-fired power project2.6 GW · coal
- #226Shenhua Guoneng Hami power station2.6 GW · coal
- #227SPIC Qinghai Hainan Prefecture Gobi Energy Base supporting coal fired power project2.6 GW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- 柴达木换流站
- Its voltage
- 750 kV
- Distance
- 28 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 750 kV
- 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
- Huatugou-Golmud Pipeline3.7 km · Pipeline
- Qinghai Golmud Source/Grid/Load/Storage solar farm4.2 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · solar
- Qinghai Golmud Photovoltaic Power Generation Industrial Park 2016-8 solar farm4.3 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Nanshankou hydroelectric plant5.4 km · Power Plant · 2.4 GW · hydro
- Nanshankou hydroelectric plant5.4 km · Grid Storage · 2.4 GW
- Qinghai Zhonghao Natural Gas Methanol Plant7.0 km · Chemical Plant
- Tibet Natural Gas Pipeline14 km · Pipeline
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)