Abstract. We extend the notion of transfinite diameter and Chebyshev constant to p-potential theory in locally compact spaces and study their relations. As in the classical case, it turns out that provided that the kernel satisfies a certain condition, for any compact sets the energy, the Chebyshev constant and the transfinite diameter are coincide. The investigations follow the linear method developed by e.g. Choquet, Fuglede, Ohtsuka, Farkas and Nagy. Taking into consideration the significance of finite sets of the minimal and almost minimal energy, we examine Fekete and greedy energy sets as well.