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Power Plant
Rugeley power station
76th-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 14% worldwide (#3,918 of 29,849)
- Owner
- ENGIE SA, Mitsui & Co Ltd
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 1,094 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1972
- Retired
- 2016
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #74Blyth power station1.1 GW · coal
- #75Connah's Quay power station1.1 GW · gas
- #76Rugeley power station1.1 GW · coal
- #77Ironbridge power station1.1 GW · coal
- #78Inch Cape wind farm1.1 GW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Rugeley Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 348 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- National Grid
- 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
- Rugeley Substation348 m · Substation / Converter
- 400 kV line355 m · Transmission Line
- Drakelow-Bustleholme12 km · Transmission Line
- National Grid Cellarhead-Drakelow14 km · Transmission Line
- Drakelow power station18 km · Power Plant · 1.1 GW · coal
- Drakelow Substation18 km · Substation / Converter
- Oaklands Farm Solar Park19 km · Power Plant · 138 MW · solar
- Bustleholme Substation23 km · Substation / Converter
- Hutchison 3G25 km · Data Centre
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)