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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
Shanxi Datong Mined-Out Areas Megabase solar farms
37th-largest power plant in China of 11,537 · top 1% worldwide (#137 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Jinneng Holdings Jinbei Energy (Shanxi) Co Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 5,000 MW
- Fuel
- solar
- Commissioned
- 2026
Comparable power plants · China · 11,537 ranked
- #1Motuo hydroelectric plant60.0 GW · hydro
- #35Lianjiang nuclear power plant5.0 GW · nuclear
- #36Gansu Tengger Desert Zhejiang Power Export Megabase solar farms5.0 GW · solar
- #37Shanxi Datong Mined-Out Areas Megabase solar farms5.0 GW · solar
- #38Qinghai Golmud (Huadian) wind farm5.0 GW · wind
- #39Yangxi Zhujiang power station5.0 GW · coal
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Substations in range
- 0
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
- Shanxi Xingrong Zhonglianyungang wind farm3.8 km · Power Plant · 150 MW · wind
- Shanxi Xirong (Mingyang) wind farm4.4 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · wind
- Shanxi Xinrong (LONGi) solar farm5.3 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- 500 kV line6.6 km · Transmission Line
- Datong Xinwang Coal Mine10 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Tangshangou Coal Mine12 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Ganzhuang Coal Mine12 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Shanxi Tongde Xinghua Special Steel Co Ltd22 km · Iron & Steel Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)