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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
Honam power station
125th-largest power plant in South Korea of 230 · top 30% worldwide (#8,721 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Korea East-West Power Co Ltd
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1973
- Retired
- 2021
Comparable power plants · South Korea · 230 ranked
- #1Hanbit nuclear power plant6.2 GW · nuclear
- #123Naepo Green Energy power station500 MW · gas
- #124Taean power station500 MW · gas
- #125Honam power station500 MW · coal
- #126Taean power station500 MW · coal
- #127Bonghwa Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant500 MW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- 한국발전기술
- Its voltage
- 345 kV
- Distance
- 4.2 km
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
- Honam power station0 m · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · gas
- Northeast Asia LNG Hub Terminal2.8 km · LNG Terminal · 3 Mtpa
- GS Caltex Yeosu Chemical Plant4.0 km · Chemical Plant
- 한국발전기술4.2 km · Substation / Converter
- Yeosu power station4.3 km · Power Plant · 679 MW · coal
- Gwangyang power station5.3 km · Power Plant · 1.1 GW · gas
- Gwangyang LNG Terminal5.7 km · LNG Terminal · 7.1 Mtpa
- Gwangyang 2 LNG Terminal5.8 km · LNG Terminal · 2.1 Mtpa
- Lotte MCC Yeosu Chemical Plant6.2 km · Chemical Plant
- Yeochun NCC Yeosu Chemical Plant6.8 km · Chemical Plant
- Yeosu / Ulsan Tank Farms7.3 km · Storage / Tank Farm
- POSCO Gwangyang steel plant7.4 km · Iron & Steel Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)