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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
Cowans Ford hydroelectric plant
1602nd-largest power plant in United States of 3,831 · top 38% worldwide (#11,189 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Duke Energy Carolinas LLC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 350 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1963
Comparable power plants · United States · 3,831 ranked
- #1Fermi America Project Matador power station6.0 GW · gas
- #1600White Hills wind farm350 MW · wind
- #1601River Valley power station350 MW · coal
- #1602Cowans Ford hydroelectric plant350 MW · hydro
- #1603Astoria (Otter Tail) power station349 MW · gas
- #1604Caithness Long Island energy center349 MW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- McGuire Substation
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 1.8 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- Duke Energy
- 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
- McGuire nuclear power plant939 m · Power Plant · 2.4 GW · nuclear
- 500 kV line1.4 km · Transmission Line
- McGuire Substation1.8 km · Substation / Converter
- Lincoln Combustion power station6.9 km · Power Plant · 2.3 GW · gas
- Riverbend Steam Station8.4 km · Power Plant · 466 MW · coal
- Flexential Charlotte - North21 km · Data Centre
- McGuire Sub DUKE to Woodleaf Sub DUKE 500KV23 km · Transmission Line
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)