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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
Macagua 1 hydroelectric plant
11th-largest power plant in Venezuela of 41 · top 31% worldwide (#9,005 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Corporación Eléctrica Nacional SA
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 480 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1959
Comparable power plants · Venezuela · 41 ranked
- #1Guri hydroelectric plant10.2 GW · hydro
- #9India Urquia power station540 MW · gas
- #10José María España power station500 MW · gas
- #11Macagua 1 hydroelectric plant480 MW · hydro
- #12Don Luis Zambrano power plant470 MW · gas
- #13La Colorada hydroelectric plant460 MW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Subestación "Macagua II" 400 Kv. (3x300 MVA) CORPOELEC
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 820 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 3
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
- Macagua 2 hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 2.9 GW · hydro
- 400 kV line411 m · Transmission Line
- Subestación "Macagua II" 400 Kv. (3x300 MVA) CORPOELEC820 m · Substation / Converter
- CANTV Puerto Ordaz5.4 km · Data Centre
- CANTV Chirica6.4 km · Data Centre
- Datacenter de Movistar6.6 km · Data Centre
- CVG Ferrominera Orinoco DRI plant7.5 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- 1x 400kV9.6 km · Transmission Line
- CVG Briquetera de Venezuela DRI plant12 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- CVG Comsigua DRI plant12 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Guayana Cement Plant17 km · Cement Plant
- Sidor power station20 km · Power Plant · 135 MW · gas
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)