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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
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Balakovo nuclear power plant
8th-largest power plant in Russia of 461 · top 1% worldwide (#257 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Rosenergoatom
- Owner
- Rosatom
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 4,000 MW
- Fuel
- nuclear
- Reactors
- 4
- Commissioned
- 1986
Comparable power plants · Russia · 461 ranked
- #1Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant6.4 GW · hydro
- #6Leningrad nuclear power plant4.4 GW · nuclear
- #7Rostov nuclear power plant4.1 GW · nuclear
- #8Balakovo nuclear power plant4.0 GW · nuclear
- #9Kalinin nuclear power plant4.0 GW · nuclear
- #10Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric plant3.8 GW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Балаковская АЭС
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 566 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Substations in range
- 2
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
- 500 kV line246 m · Transmission Line
- Балаковская АЭС566 m · Substation / Converter
- Zorkino-Balakovo Gas Pipeline11 km · Pipeline
- Saratovskaya hydroelectric plant14 km · Power Plant · 1.4 GW · hydro
- Саратовская ГЭС14 km · Substation / Converter
- Balakovo CHP-4 power station17 km · Power Plant · 370 MW · gas
- Balakovo Steel Plant20 km · Iron & Steel Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)