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- 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
Hinkley Point nuclear power plant
6th-largest power plant in United Kingdom of 305 · top 2% worldwide (#411 of 29,849)
- Operator
- EDF Energy, China General Nuclear
- Owner
- EDF Energy, China General Nuclear
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 3,440 MW
- Fuel
- nuclear
- Reactors
- 2
- Commissioned
- 2029
Comparable power plants · United Kingdom · 305 ranked
- #1Hornsea wind farm5.6 GW · wind
- #4Dogger Bank wind farm3.7 GW · wind
- #5Ossian Offshore wind farm3.6 GW · wind
- #6Hinkley Point nuclear power plant3.4 GW · nuclear
- #7Sizewell nuclear power plant3.2 GW · nuclear
- #8East Anglia wind farm3.1 GW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Shurton Substation
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 443 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
- Shurton Substation443 m · Substation / Converter
- 400 kV line463 m · Transmission Line
- Hinkley Point nuclear power plant749 m · Power Plant · 1.8 GW · nuclear
- Hinkley Point - Shurton870 m · Transmission Line
- National Grid Melksham-Hinkley Point985 m · Transmission Line
- Hinkley Point B Substation1.0 km · Substation / Converter
- Tata Communications Highbridge Datacentre13 km · Data Centre
- Bridgwater Substation16 km · Substation / Converter
- Insight Data Ltd23 km · Data Centre
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)