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Power Plant
Hinkley Point nuclear power plant
34th-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 6% worldwide (#1,695 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Magnox
- Owner
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (United Kingdom)
- Status
- idle
- Capacity
- 1,844 MW
- Fuel
- nuclear
- Reactors
- 4
- Commissioned
- 1965
- Retired
- 2022
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #32West Of Orkney Offshore wind farm2.0 GW · wind
- #33Balmacaan Estate hydroelectric plant2.0 GW · hydro
- #34Hinkley Point nuclear power plant1.8 GW · nuclear
- #35Earba hydroelectric plant1.8 GW · hydro
- #36Loch Fearna hydroelectric plant1.8 GW · hydro
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Hinkley Point B Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 276 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 10
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
- 400 kV line205 m · Transmission Line
- Hinkley Point B Substation276 m · Substation / Converter
- Hinkley Point - Shurton283 m · Transmission Line
- National Grid Melksham-Hinkley Point283 m · Transmission Line
- Shurton Substation621 m · Substation / Converter
- Hinkley Point nuclear power plant749 m · Power Plant · 3.4 GW · nuclear
- Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre12 km · Data Centre
- Bridgwater Substation15 km · Substation / Converter
- Insight Data Ltd23 km · Data Centre
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)