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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
Dounreay nuclear power plant
203rd-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 46% worldwide (#13,634 of 29,849)
- Operator
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- Owner
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 265 MW
- Fuel
- nuclear
- Reactors
- 2
- Commissioned
- 1962
- Retired
- 1994
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #201Lincs wind farm270 MW · wind
- #202Bodinglee wind farm266 MW · wind
- #203Dounreay nuclear power plant265 MW · nuclear
- #204Thurrock Data Centre259 MW · oil
- #205Calder Hall nuclear power plant240 MW · nuclear
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Spittal Substation
- Its voltage
- 320 kV
- Distance
- 20 km
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
- Limekiln wind farm5.8 km · Power Plant · 101 MW · wind
- Pentland wind farm13 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
- Spittal Substation20 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)