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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
Potomac River Generating Station
1154th-largest power plant in United States of 3,831 · top 27% worldwide (#8,058 of 29,849)
- Owner
- NRG Energy Inc
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 514 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1949
- Retired
- 2012
Comparable power plants · United States · 3,831 ranked
- #1Fermi America Project Matador power station6.0 GW · gas
- #1152Renegade Solar Project515 MW · solar
- #1153Hecate Energy Harley Hand Solar514 MW · solar
- #1154Potomac River Generating Station514 MW · coal
- #1155Red Hills Generation Facility514 MW · coal
- #1156Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant512 MW · nuclear
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Burches Hill Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 17 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Substations in range
- 12
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
- CoreSite DC19.2 km · Data Centre
- Amazon Web Services15 km · Data Centre
- 500 kV line17 km · Transmission Line
- Burches Hill Substation17 km · Substation / Converter
- Burches Hill Sub Pepco to Cheltenham Sub Pepco 500KV17 km · Transmission Line
- Element Critical VA118 km · Data Centre
- Covanta Fairfax power station22 km · Power Plant · 124 MW · biomass
- Brandywine power facility23 km · Power Plant · 289 MW · gas
- Cheltenham Substation23 km · Substation / Converter
- Keys energy center23 km · Power Plant · 831 MW · gas
- Ox Substation24 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)