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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
Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) power station
Largest power plant in Bahrain of 11 · top 2% worldwide (#319 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Aluminium Bahrain
- Owner
- Aluminium Bahrain BSC
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 3,927 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 1992
Comparable power plants · Bahrain · 11 ranked
- #1Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) power station3.9 GW · gas
- #2Al-Dur Power and Water Station2.7 GW · gas
- #3Masdar-Bapco wind farm2.0 GW · wind
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- 400 kV Rifaa
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 3.2 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 380 kV
- Substations in range
- 1
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
- Amazon Web Services2.7 km · Data Centre
- Bahrain Saudi Arabia Oil Pipeline3.1 km · Pipeline
- Riffa Power and Water Station3.2 km · Power Plant · 700 MW · gas
- 400 kV Rifaa3.2 km · Substation / Converter
- Al Askar IPP solar farm4.4 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Askar Landfill Remediation solar farm5.4 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Askar Cement Plant6.9 km · Cement Plant
- GPIC Sitra Ammonia and Methanol Plant7.0 km · Chemical Plant
- Khuff Gas Field (Bahrain)8.4 km · Oil & Gas Field
- Bapco Sitra Refinery9.2 km · Refinery · 267 kb/d
- Amazon Web Services10 km · Data Centre
- Amazon Web Services14 km · Data Centre
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)