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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
Al Faw Thermal power station
10th-largest power plant in Iraq of 153 · top 6% worldwide (#1,597 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Ministry of Electricity (Iraq)
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 1,950 MW
- Fuel
- oil
Comparable power plants · Iraq · 153 ranked
- #1Besmaya power station4.8 GW · gas
- #8Al-Shemal Thermal power station2.1 GW · oil
- #9New Basrah power plant2.0 GW · gas
- #10Al Faw Thermal power station1.9 GW · oil
- #11Shatt Al-Basra power station1.9 GW · gas
- #12Al- Yusufiyah power plant1.8 GW · oil
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Sayid Dakhil 400KV Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 31 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 3
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
- Zubair-Faw Gas Pipeline Iraq11 km · Pipeline
- شط البصرة الغازية -Sayid Dakhil16 km · Transmission Line
- Abadan Refinery21 km · Refinery · 400 kb/d
- Abdan Refinery No.3 power plant22 km · Power Plant · 210 MW · gas
- Siba Gas Field (Iraq)23 km · Oil & Gas Field
- Karpowership24 km · Power Plant · 590 MW · gas
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)