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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
Aberthaw-B power station
38th-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 7% worldwide (#1,875 of 29,849)
- Owner
- RWE Generation SE
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 1,725 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1971
- Retired
- 2020
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #36Loch Fearna hydroelectric plant1.8 GW · hydro
- #37Staythorpe C power station1.8 GW · gas
- #38Aberthaw-B power station1.7 GW · coal
- #39Dungeness nuclear power plant1.7 GW · nuclear
- #40Keadby power station1.7 GW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Shurton Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 28 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 10
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
- Aberthaw Cement Plant1.4 km · Cement Plant
- CGI Datacenter17 km · Data Centre
- Se.ven GI Cardiff steel plant21 km · Iron & Steel Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)