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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
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- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
Birsfelden hydroelectric plant
52nd-largest power plant in Switzerland of 55 · top 100% worldwide (#29,828 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Kraftwerk Birsfelden AG (KWB)
- Owner
- Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB), Coorperative Elektra Baselland (EBL), Cooperative Elektra Birseck (EMB)
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 100 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1955
Comparable power plants · Switzerland · 55 ranked
- #1Leibstadt nuclear power plant1.3 GW · nuclear
- #50Verbois hydroelectric plant103 MW · hydro
- #51Olivone hydroelectric plant102 MW · hydro
- #52Birsfelden hydroelectric plant100 MW · hydro
- #53Castasegna hydroelectric plant100 MW · hydro
- #54Handeck I hydroelectric plant100 MW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Asphard
- Its voltage
- 380 kV
- Distance
- 9.7 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- RTE
- 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
- NorthC data centers Basel5.3 km · Data Centre
- Colobâle5.5 km · Data Centre
- 380 kV line5.7 km · Transmission Line
- Koppelleitung Asphard (CH) / Laufenburg (CH) - Sierentz (F)8.8 km · Transmission Line
- Asphard9.7 km · Substation / Converter
- APHSS-SIEFF;EGL-Wiesental Nord10 km · Transmission Line
- Kembs hydroelectric plant13 km · Power Plant · 162 MW · hydro
- Trans Europa Naturgas Pipeline — Hügelheim–Hüsingen14 km · Pipeline
- Rheinfelden hydroelectric plant14 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · hydro
- Poste électrique de Sierentz15 km · Substation / Converter
- Ryburg-Schwörstadt hydroelectric plant16 km · Power Plant · 120 MW · hydro
- Schwörstadt17 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)