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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
Karuma hydroelectric plant
6th-largest power plant in Uganda of 16 · top 25% worldwide (#7,459 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Uganda Electricity Generation Company LTD (UEGCL)
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 600 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 2023
Comparable power plants · Uganda · 16 ranked
- #1Nakasongola nuclear power plant7.2 GW · nuclear
- #4Buyende nuclear power plant2.0 GW · nuclear
- #5Ayago hydroelectric plant840 MW · hydro
- #6Karuma hydroelectric plant600 MW · hydro
- #7Kiba hydroelectric plant400 MW · hydro
- #8Oriang hydroelectric plant392 MW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Karuma substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 553 m
- 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
- Karuma substation553 m · Substation / Converter
- Karuma Kawanda Power Line774 m · Transmission Line
- Oriang hydroelectric plant21 km · Power Plant · 392 MW · hydro
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)