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Power Plant
Didcot power station
21st-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 4% worldwide (#1,096 of 29,849)
- Owner
- RWE Generation SE
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 2,172 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1970
- Retired
- 2013
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #19West Burton power station2.2 GW · coal
- #20Cottam power station2.2 GW · coal
- #21Didcot power station2.2 GW · coal
- #22Kingsnorth power station2.2 GW · coal
- #23Ratcliffe power station2.2 GW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Didcot Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 395 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 7
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
- Didcot power station0 m · Power Plant · 1.6 GW · gas
- 400 kV line363 m · Transmission Line
- Didcot Substation395 m · Substation / Converter
- National Grid Didcot-Bramley522 m · Transmission Line
- National Grid Didcot-Cowley534 m · Transmission Line
- AWS Didcot Data Centre547 m · Data Centre
- Culham JET Substation4.9 km · Substation / Converter
- R896.5 km · Data Centre
- Cowley Substation11 km · Substation / Converter
- University Shared Data Centre15 km · Data Centre
- Botley West solar farm22 km · Power Plant · 840 MW · solar
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)