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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
Merowe Dam hydroelectric plant
Largest power plant in Sudan of 15 · top 11% worldwide (#3,149 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Sinohydro
- Owner
- Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 1,250 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 2009
Comparable power plants · Sudan · 15 ranked
- #1Merowe Dam hydroelectric plant1.3 GW · hydro
- #2Port Sudan power station1.0 GW · gas
- #3Kosti power plant500 MW · oil
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Merowe
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 578 m
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
- Merowe578 m · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)