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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
Kincardine power station
110th-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 20% worldwide (#5,779 of 29,849)
- Owner
- ScottishPower Ltd
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 760 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1958
- Retired
- 2002
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #108Coryton power station800 MW · gas
- #109Springwell solar farm800 MW · solar
- #110Kincardine power station760 MW · coal
- #111Medway power station755 MW · gas
- #112Meridian solar farm (United Kingdom)750 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Denny North Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 11 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- SP Energy Networks
- Substations in range
- 5
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
- Forties Oil Pipeline System — Grangemouth-Fife3.3 km · Pipeline
- Longannet power station4.0 km · Power Plant · 2.5 GW · coal
- Grangemouth FSRU5.8 km · LNG Terminal · 5 Mtpa
- Grangemouth Refinery6.4 km · Refinery · 210 kb/d
- Ineos Grangemouth Olefins and Polymers Plant6.9 km · Chemical Plant
- Grangemouth power station7.3 km · Power Plant · 145 MW · gas
- Beauly-Denny10 km · Transmission Line
- 400 kV line11 km · Transmission Line
- Denny North Substation11 km · Substation / Converter
- Earlsburn Avenue - Earlsburn wind farm14 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
- Hound Point (Forties)22 km · Export Terminal
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)