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Power Plant
Drax power station
2nd-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 1% worldwide (#227 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Drax Power Ltd
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 4,206 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1974
- Retired
- 2023
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #2Drax power station4.2 GW · coal
- #3Berwick Bank wind farm4.1 GW · wind
- #4Dogger Bank wind farm3.7 GW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Drax
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 443 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 18
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Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Drax power station0 m · Power Plant · 2.7 GW · biomass
- 400 kV line357 m · Transmission Line
- Drax443 m · Substation / Converter
- National Grid Drax-Thornton522 m · Transmission Line
- National Grid Drax-Thorpe Marsh563 m · Transmission Line
- Helios Renewable Energy Project solar farm5.6 km · Power Plant · 190 MW · solar
- Eggborough power station8.8 km · Power Plant · 2.1 GW · coal
- Eggborough Substation9.0 km · Substation / Converter
- Monk Fryston substation18 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)