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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
Kariba Dam hydroelectric plant
2nd-largest power plant in Zambia of 39 · top 4% worldwide (#1,126 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Zambezi River Authority
- Owner
- ZESCO Ltd
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 2,130 MW
- Fuel
- hydro
- Commissioned
- 1959
Comparable power plants · Zambia · 39 ranked
- #1Batoka Gorge hydroelectric plant2.4 GW · hydro
- #2Kariba Dam hydroelectric plant2.1 GW · hydro
- #3Masdar Zesco solar farm2.0 GW · solar
- #4Green Giant Zambia solar farm1.0 GW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Switchyard
- Its voltage
- 330 kV
- Distance
- 457 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
- Switchyard457 m · Substation / Converter
- Kariba North Bank Substation733 m · Substation / Converter
- Kariba North Bank Substation 21.2 km · Substation / Converter
- Siavonga solar farm1.3 km · Power Plant · 200 MW · solar
- Siavonga (Hive) solar farm5.7 km · Power Plant · 120 MW · solar
- Lake Kariba floating solar farm24 km · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · solar
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)