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Power Plant
Barka I Independent Water and power plant
46th-largest power plant in Oman of 80 · top 31% worldwide (#9,194 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Barka Water and Power Company SAOG
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 456 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2003
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- #45Rusail power plant480 MW · gas
- #46Barka I Independent Water and power plant456 MW · gas
- #47Salalah 2 Independent power plant450 MW · gas
- #48GameChange-Duqm solar farm450 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Misfah
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 30 km
- 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
- Barka II Independent Water and power plant297 m · Power Plant · 688 MW · gas
- Barka III Independent power plant758 m · Power Plant · 766 MW · gas
- Barka power station10 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · biomass
- Murayrat-Barka Gas Pipeline19 km · Pipeline
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)