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Asset classes
- 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
Baglan Bay power station
131st-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 26% worldwide (#7,746 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Calon Energy
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 552 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2002
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #129Kilroot power station566 MW · coal
- #130Green Volt floating offshore wind farm560 MW · wind
- #131Baglan Bay power station552 MW · gas
- #132Seagreen offshore wind farm540 MW · wind
- #133Whitelee wind farm539 MW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Swansea North Supergrid Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 12 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 4
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
- Port Talbot Cement Plant4.7 km · Cement Plant
- Port of Talbot Coal Terminal5.2 km · Export Terminal
- Tata Steel Port Talbot steel plant5.5 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Y Bryn wind farm9.0 km · Power Plant · 130 MW · wind
- Pen Y Cymoedd wind farm11 km · Power Plant · 228 MW · wind
- 400 kV line11 km · Transmission Line
- Swansea North Supergrid Substation12 km · Substation / Converter
- National Grid Cilfynydd-Swansea North12 km · Transmission Line
- National Grid Swansea North-Pembroke12 km · Transmission Line
- Aberpergwm Coal Mine19 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Aberpergwm Coal Mine19 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- CGI Datacenter22 km · Data Centre
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)