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- 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
Kholombidzo hydroelectric plant
4th-largest power plant in Malawi of 10 · top 53% worldwide (#15,751 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Electricity Generation Co (Malawi) Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 210 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
Comparable power plants · Malawi · 10 ranked
- #1Mpatamanga Gorge hydroelectric plant359 MW · hydro
- #2Kamwamba power station300 MW · coal
- #3Fufu hydroelectric plant261 MW · hydro
- #4Kholombidzo hydroelectric plant210 MW · hydro
- #5Songwe hydroelectric plant180 MW · hydro
- #6Rukuru power station150 MW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Phombeya Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 15 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 1
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
- 400 kV line4.1 km · Transmission Line
- Phombeya Substation15 km · Substation / Converter
- Nkula B hydroelectric plant17 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · hydro
- Tedzani Falls hydroelectric plant22 km · Power Plant · 121 MW · hydro
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)