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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
Chokepoints
Power Plant
Elgin energy center
1104th-largest power plant in United States of 3,831 · top 27% worldwide (#7,860 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Middle River Power LLC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 540 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2002
Comparable power plants · United States · 3,831 ranked
- #1Fermi America Project Matador power station6.0 GW · gas
- #1102Lewis Creek power station542 MW · gas
- #1103Chattahoochee energy facility540 MW · gas
- #1104Elgin energy center540 MW · gas
- #1105Shady Hills generating station540 MW · gas
- #1106Michigan City Generating Station540 MW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- ComEd Wayne 138kV-345kV Substation
- Its voltage
- 345 kV
- Distance
- 1.9 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 765 kV
- Substations in range
- 25
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
- ComEd Wayne 138kV-345kV Substation1.9 km · Substation / Converter
- ComEd Tollway 138kV-345kV Substation7.1 km · Substation / Converter
- Rocky Road power station10 km · Power Plant · 374 MW · gas
- Fermilab Master Substation17 km · Substation / Converter
- NTT Chicago CH320 km · Data Centre
- NTT Chicago CH220 km · Data Centre
- NTT Chicago CH120 km · Data Centre
- Aurora power station21 km · Power Plant · 1.1 GW · gas
- ANR Gas Pipeline — Heartland Project24 km · Pipeline
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)