List of power stations in Germany
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. For traction current, see List of installations for 15kV AC railway electrification in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Nuclear

Name Location Geographical Coordinates Type Capacity, MWe Operational Notes
VAK
Kahl Nuclear Power Plant
The Kahl plant was the first nuclear power plant ever to be built in Germany. It was located in Karlstein am Main and was an experimental boiling water reactor. It was built by General Electric and supplied by Siemens. At the end of 2008, the demolition works had been finished....

Kahl am Main
Kahl am Main
Kahl am Main is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.- Location :...

50.0591294°N 8.9871812°E BWR 15 1960-1985
MZFR Leopoldshafen
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/BW is a town of about 15000 inhabitants located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Federal Republic of Germany. It lies about 12 km north of Karlsruhe and is the site of the northern campus of a research centre Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...

49.1043102°N 8.4325862°E PHWR 52 1965–1984
AVR Jülich
Jülich
Jülich is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Jülich is well known as location of a world-famous research centre, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and as shortwave transmission site of Deutsche Welle...

50.9030599°N 6.4213693°E HTGR 13 1966–1988
KKR
Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Plant
Rheinsberg Nuclear Power Station was the second nuclear reactor in East Germany after the Rossendorf Research Reactor, and the first nuclear power reactor in East Germany. It was built close to the city of Rheinsberg on the Stechlinsee...

Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Rhin, approx. 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.-History:...

53.1472465°N 12.9903674°E VVER 62 1966-1990 GDR plant, shut down after German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...

KRB
Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant
The Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant is the highest-output nuclear power station in Germany, producing 2 × 1344 megawatts. It is located in Gundremmingen, district of Günzburg, Bavaria and is operated by Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH, a joint operation of RWE Power AG, based in Essen and E.ON...

Unit A
Gundremmingen
Gundremmingen
Gundremmingen is a municipality in the district of Günzburg in Bavaria in Germany. It is well known for the Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant.-Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Station:...

 
48.513264°N 10.4020357°E BWR 238 1966-1977
....Unit B 48.5148276°N 10.402379°E BWR 1284 1984- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
....Unit C 48.5155383°N 10.4020786°E BWR 1288 1985- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
KWO
Obrigheim Nuclear Power Plant
The shut down Nuclear power station Obrigheim lies in Obrigheim in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis . It operated one pressurized water reactor unit.-History:-Planning:...

Obrigheim
Obrigheim
Obrigheim is a town in the district of Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany....

49.364503°N 9.076252°E PWR 340 1968–2005
KWL Lingen
Lingen
Lingen is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2008 the population was 52,353, and in addition there are about 5,000 people who have registered the city as their secondary residence...

52.4831853°N 7.3005223°E BWR 250 1968-1977
HDR Grosswelzheim
Karlstein am Main
Karlstein am Main is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.-Location:...

50.0551446°N 8.9848691°E BWR 23 1969-1971
KKS
Stade Nuclear Power Plant
The Nuclear power station Stade operated from 1972 to 2003 in Bassenfleth close to the Schwinge-river mouth into the Elbe river. It was the first nuclear plant shut down after Germany's nuclear phase out legislation and is currently undergoing the decommissioning process .The station is located...

Stade
Stade
Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . It is the seat of the district named after it...

53.6200685°N 9.5306289°E PWR 640 1972-2003
KKN Niederaichbach
Niederaichbach
Niederaichbach is a municipality in the district of Landshut in Bavaria in Germany....

48.6058015°N 12.3000848°E HWCGR 100 1973-1974
KGR
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant
The Nuclear power station Greifswald , also known as nuclear power station Lubmin, was the largest nuclear power station in East Germany before closure shortly after the German reunification. The plants were of the VVER-440/V-230 type, which was the first generation of Soviet Union designed plants...

Greifswald
Greifswald
Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

54.1417497°N 13.6583877°E VVER 408 1974-1990 GDR plant, shut down after German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...

54.1417623°N 13.6597395°E VVER 408 1975-1990
54.1415235°N 13.6624217°E VVER 408 1978-1990
54.1414229°N 13.663644°E VVER 408 1979-1990
54.140631°N 13.6664128°E VVER 408 1989-1990
KWB
Biblis Nuclear Power Plant
The Biblis Nuclear Power Plant is in the South Hessian municipality of Biblis and consists of two units: unit A with a gross output of 1200 megawatts and unit B with a gross output of 1300 megawatts. Both units are pressurized water reactors...

Biblis
Biblis
Biblis is a community in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany.- Location :The community lies in the Rhine rift west of the Odenwald between Darmstadt to the north and Mannheim to the south; it also lies north of Bürstadt...

49.709331°N 8.415865°E PWR 1176 (Unit A) 1975- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
49.7089474°N 8.413285°E PWR 1240 (Unit B) 1977- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
KWW Würgassen 51.6396481°N 9.3915617°E BWR 640 1975-1994
GKN
Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant
Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany. It is sometimes abbreviated GKN . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.-GKN 1:...

Neckarwestheim
Neckarwestheim
Neckarwestheim is a municipality with 3524 inhabitants in the Heilbronn district, Baden-Württemberg, in south-west Germany. It is located on the Neckar river and is well known as the location of a nuclear power station.-Geographical position:...

49.0401151°N 9.1721088°E PWR 785 (including traction current) 1976- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
49.0406214°N 9.1755903°E PWR 1269 1989- Scheduled for shut down in 2022
KKB
Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant
Brunsbüttel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Brunsbüttel near Hamburg, Germany. It is owned 67% by Vattenfall and 33% by E.ON. It started operation in 1976 and has a gross power production of 806 MW. As part of the nuclear power phase-out, it was taken out of service in 2007....

Brunsbüttel
Brunsbüttel
Brunsbüttel is a town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany that lies on the mouth of the Elbe river, near the North Sea. It is the location of the western entrance to the Kiel Canal, the eastern entrance being located at Kiel-Holtenau...

53.8913533°N 9.2005777°E BWR 771 1977- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
KKI (Isar) Essenbach
Essenbach
Essenbach is a municipality in the district of Landshut, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 9 km northeast of Landshut....

48.6044748°N 12.2972095°E BWR 870 (Unit 1) 1979- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
48.6055532°N 12.2931647°E PWR 1365 (Unit 2) 1988- Scheduled for shut down in 2022
KKU
Unterweser Nuclear Power Plant
The nuclear power station Unterweser is a nuclear power plant in Kleinensiel , in close proximity to Nordenham.When it first started up, it was the largest nuclear reactor in the world. It has 193 fuel assemblies...

(Unterweser)
Stadland
Stadland
Stadland is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Weser, approx. 32 km northeast of Oldenburg, and 42 km northwest of Bremen. On the west side Stadland bordered to the Jade Bight...

53.4293465°N 8.4774649°E PWR 1285 1979- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
KNK Leopoldshafen
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen/BW is a town of about 15000 inhabitants located in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Federal Republic of Germany. It lies about 12 km north of Karlsruhe and is the site of the northern campus of a research centre Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...

49.0973279°N 8.4327739°E FBR 17 1979-1991
KKP
Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant
The Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant is located in Philippsburg in Karlsruhe . It is operated by EnBW Kernkraft GmbH.It houses two units, the first a BWR and the second a PWR ....

Philippsburg
Philippsburg
Philippsburg is a town in Germany, in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg.-History:Before 1632, Philippsburg was known as "Udenheim".The city was a possession of the Bishop of Speyer from 1371–1718...

49.2513078°N 8.4356761°E BWR 890 (Unit 1) 1980- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
49.2513078°N 8.4356761°E PWR 1358 (Unit 2) 1985- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
KKG
Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant
The Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Plant is located near Grafenrheinfeld, south of Schweinfurt in Main. Commencement of construction was in 1974, start-up took place 1981. It is a German third generation PWR with an electrical net power of 1345 megawatts...

Grafenrheinfeld
Grafenrheinfeld
Grafenrheinfeld is a municipality in the district of Schweinfurt in Bavaria, Germany. The municipality is home to the nuclear power station, Grafenrheinfeld, which opened in 1982.-Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Power Station:...

49.9841308°N 10.1846373°E PWR 1275 1982- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
KKK
Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant
Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Geesthacht near Hamburg, Germany. It was taken into operation in 1983 and is owned 50% by Vattenfall via Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH and 50% by E.ON, and operated by the Swedish Vattenfall...

(Krümmel)
Geesthacht
Geesthacht
Geesthacht is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, 34 km southeast of Hamburg on the right bank of the river Elbe.-History:*Around 800: A church is documented....

53.4104656°N 10.4091597°E BWR 1260 1984- To be shut down permanently as of March 2011
KWG
Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant
The Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant is located in Hamelin-Pyrmont in Lower Saxony. It has one reactor that uses 193 fuel assemblies and utilizes both Enriched Uranium and MOX fuel...

Grohnde
Emmerthal
Emmerthal is a municipality in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weser, approximatively 6 km south of Hamelin. Its seat is in the village Kirchohsen....

52.0348748°N 9.4097793°E PWR 1360 1985- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
KBR
Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant
Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant is close to the municipality of Brokdorf in Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It started in October 1986 by a first-of-its-kind joint venture between PreussenElektra and Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke...

Brokdorf
Brokdorf
Brokdorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.-Anti Nuclear protests:The Brokdorf Nuclear Power Plant is located in Brokdorf. During the building phase in the 70's and 80's there were violent protests of nuclear power by opponents...

53.850666°N 9.3457603°E PWR 1326 1986- Scheduled for shut down in 2021
KMK
Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant
The nuclear power station Mülheim Kärlich lies on the Rhine, about 10 km northwest from Koblenz, close to the town Mülheim-Kärlich. The operating company was Société Luxembourgeoise de Centrales Nucléaires, a daughter company of RWE...

Mülheim-Kärlich
Mülheim-Kärlich
Mülheim-Kärlich is a town in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Weißenthurm. It is situated west of Koblenz, a few km from the Rhine.-References:...

50.408791°N 7.4861956°E PWR 1219 1987-1988
THTR
THTR-300
The THTR-300 was a thorium high-temperature nuclear reactor rated at 300 MW electric . The German state of North Rhine Westphalia, in the Federal Republic of Germany, and Hochtemperatur-Kernkraftwerk GmbH financed the THTR-300’s construction. Operations started on the plant in Hamm-Uentrop,...

Hamm-Uentrop
Hamm
Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of December 2003 its population was 180,849. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway...

51.6786228°N 7.9700232°E HTGR 296 1987-1988
KKE
Emsland Nuclear Power Plant
Emsland Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear reactor located in the district of Emsland, Germany just south of the Lingen Nuclear Power Plant. The reactor has 193 fuel elements totaling a core weight of 103 tons. It is a Konvoi type reactor, and is said to be one of the safest German nuclear power...

Emsland
Emsland
Landkreis Emsland is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. It is bounded by the districts of Leer, Cloppenburg and Osnabrück, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the district of Bentheim and the Netherlands .- History :For a long time the region of the Emsland was...

52.4716974°N 7.3206389°E PWR 1290 1988- Scheduled for shut down in 2022

Fossil

List is incomplete!
Name Height of Chimneys Year Capacity ( MW) Fuel Town Coordinates Remarks
Power Station Westerholt
Power Station Westerholt
Westerholt Power Station was a coal fired power station in Gelsenkirchen-Westerholt, Germany. The power plant consisted of two units built in the 1960s, each capable of producing 150 MW of electricity. Its smokestack, built in 1981, was over 337 metres tall, making it Germany's tallest chimney at...

 
1107 ft 337.5 m 1997 Coal Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°36′4.48"N 7°3′52.16"E demolished in 2006
Power Plant Scholven
Scholven Power Station
Scholven Power Station is a E.ON owned coal-fired power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Its installed output capacity of 2300 MW it is one of the most powerful coal-fired power stations in Europe.-Structure:...

 
991 ft 302 m 2056 MW Coal Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Ruhr area. Its population in 2006 was c. 267,000....

 
51°36′12.84"N 7°0′7.44"E ; 51°36′2.06"N 7°0′16.56"E
Power Plant Jänschwalde
Power Station Jänschwalde
Jänschwalde Power Station is located near the village of Jänschwalde in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border. The lignite-fired power station has an installed capacity of 3,000 megawatts and consists of six 500 MW units...

 
984 ft 300 m 1981 3000 MW Lignite Jänschwalde
Jänschwalde
Jänschwalde is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße in Brandenburg in East Germany. It is situated in the region of Niederlausitz...

 
51°49′56.07"N 14°27′10.89"E ; 51°49′55.76"N 14°27′25.89"E ; 51°49′55.5"N 14°27′40.96"E
Power Plant Chemnitz
HKW Chemnitz-Nord
HKW Chemnitz-Nord is a lignite-fired power station in the northern parts of Chemnitz with a power capacity of 120 megawatts. It has a 307 metre tall chimney, one of the tallest chimneys in Germany ....

 
984 ft 300 m 195 MW Lignite, gas, oil Chemnitz
Chemnitz
Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

 
50°51′28.01"N 12°55′25.79"E
Buschhaus Power Station
Buschhaus Power Station
Buschhaus Power Station is a lignite-fired power station near Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is operated by E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH. E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH with domicile in Hanover operates power plants at 20 sites around Germany with an output of around 15.000 megawatt feeding some 50 billion...

 
984 ft 300 m 1984 380 MW Lignite Helmstedt
Helmstedt
Helmstedt is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. Helmstedt has 26,000 inhabitants . In former times the city was also called Helmstädt....

, Lower-Saxony
52°10′18.35"N 10°58′37.89"E
Herne Power Station
STEAG Power Plant Herne
Herne power plant is a coal-fired power plant located at Herne in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was constructed in 1962. The installed capacity of the plant is 950 megawatts. The power plant is owned and operated by Evonik Steag GmbH, a subsidiary of Evonik Industries.In the 1980s, a...

 
984 ft 300 m 1989 950 MW Coal Herne
Herne, Germany
Herne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen.- History :Like most other cities in the region Herne was a tiny village until the 19th century...

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°33′2.36"N 7°11′15.27"E
Walsum Power Station
STEAG Power Plant Walsum
Walsum power plant is a coal-fired power station owned by Evonik Industries. It is in the Walsum quarter of Duisburg, on the area of the former Walsum coal mine.-Structure:...

 
984 ft 300 m 1988 410 MW Coal Walsum, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°31′42.81"N 6°42′52.54"E
Lippendorf Power Station
Lippendorf Power Station
Lippendorf Power Station is a lignite-fired power station in Lippendorf, which is located in the municipality of Neukieritzsch, near Leipzig in Saxony, Germany. The power plant is owned and operated by Vattenfall.-Old power station:...

 
984 ft 300 m 1967 Lignite Lippendorf, Saxony 51°10′36.37"N 12°22′34.94"E demolished in 2005
Thierbach Power Station
Thierbach Power Station
Thierbach Power Station was a brown-coal fired power station at Espenhain-Thierbach, Germany. It had a 300 metre tall chimney, which belonged to the tallest free-standing structures of former Eastern Germany.-External links:...

 
984 ft 300 m Lignite Espenhain
Espenhain
Espenhain is a municipality in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany.-Solar power plant:The solar power plant Espenhain Leipzig is in the municipality. This power plant is a photovoltaic power station. It is a partnership project of the Berlin project development company Geosol and Shell...

, Saxony
51°10′4.83"N 12°30′28.89"E demolished
Boxberg Power Station
Boxberg Power Station
Boxberg Power Station is a lignite-fired power station with three units at Boxberg , Saxony. Since the late nineties it produces 1900 MW...

 
984 ft 300 m 1900 MW Lignite Boxberg
Boxberg, Saxony
Boxberg is a municipality in the Görlitz district in Saxony, Germany....

, Sachsen
51°24′53.95"N 14°33′41.76"E ; 51°24′55"N 14°33′48.94"E ; 51°24′57.17"N 14°34′0.18"E ; 51°24′59.93"N 14°34′19.09"E
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station is an ensemble of three thermal power-stations. One of these power stations has a 300 metre tall, another a 241 metre tall chimney.The 300 metre chimney was demolished at the beginning of the 1990s, using a special excavator....

 
984 ft 300 m Coal Marl
Marl
Marl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and aragonite. Marl was originally an old term loosely applied to a variety of materials, most of which occur as loose, earthy deposits consisting chiefly of an intimate mixture of clay...

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°41′34"N 7°6′33"E demolished
Bergkamen Power Station
Bergkamen Power Station
Bergkamen Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Germany. It is located in the city of Bergkamen, in the Unna district. It was established in 1981 and has an output capacity of 747 megawatts...

 
925 ft 282 m 1981 747 MW Coal Bergkamen
Bergkamen
Bergkamen is a town in the district of Unna, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the river Lippe, approx. north-east of Dortmund and south-west of Hamm....

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°38′12.16"N 7°37′14.05"E
Werdohl-Elverlingsen Power Station
Werdohl-Elverlingsen Power Station
Werdohl-Elverlingsen Power Station is a coal and gas fired power station in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany....

 
925 ft 282 m 637 MW Coal Werdohl
Werdohl
Werdohl is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:Werdohl is located in the hills of the Sauerland, at a double meander of the river Lenne and its confluent, the Verse...

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°16′33.04"N 7°42′26.24"E ; 51°16′33.46"N 7°42′23.75"E
Gersteinwerk  925 ft 282 m 1984 1680 MW Coal Werne
Werne
Werne is a town in the Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Unna district in Germany. It is located on the southern edge of the Münsterland region near the Ruhrgebiet...

, Northrhine-Westphalia 
51°40′24.79"N 7°43′14.28"E
Ibbenbüren Power Station  902 ft 275 m 1985 770 MW Anthrazite Ibbenbüren
Ibbenbüren
Ibbenbüren or Ibbenbueren is a medium-sized town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is on position 185 of the largest cities in Germany and the largest city in Tecklenburger Land.-Geography:...

, Northrhine-Westphalia
52°17′9.11"N 7°44′45.23"E
Rüstersieler Power Station  902 ft 275 m 747 MW Coal Rüstersieler, Lower-Saxony 53°33′56.93"N 8°8′46.46"E
Voerde Power Station 820 ft 250 m 1982 Coal Voerde
Voerde
Voerde is a town in the district of Wesel, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 10 km south-east of Wesel, and 20 km north of Duisburg.-City structure:According to art...

, Northrhine-Westphalia
51°34′37.65"N 6°40′53.19"E
Grosskrotzenburg Power Station
Grosskrotzenburg power station
Großkrotzenburg Power Station is a modern coal-fired thermal power station in Großkrotzenburg, Hesse, east of Frankfurt, Germany. It comprises five units with a total capacity of approximately 2000 MW. The units were built between 1965 and 1992...

 
820 ft 250 m 2000 MW Coal Großkrotzenburg, Hessen 50°5′17.76"N 8°57′5.97"E
Lünen Power Station
Lünen Power Station
Lünen Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Germany. It's located in Lünen in the district Unna. It has an output capacity of 500 megawatts. The first power station in Lünen was commissioned in 1938. The power station produces traction current since 1984 also. Since at the end of 2003...

 
820 ft 250 m 500 MW ( 110 MW traction current) Lünen, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°36′50.79"N 7°28′53.12"E
Unit 6 of Bremen-Hafen Power Station  820 ft 250 m 450 MW Coal Bremen 53°7′29.54"N 8°43′43.11"E
Altbach Power Station
Altbach Power Station
Altbach Power Station is a modern power plant of EnBW at Altbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has an output capacity of 1200 MW electricity and 560 MW heat....

 
820 ft 250 m 1270 MW Coal Altbach, Baden-Württemberg 48°43′1.42"N 9°22′2.91"E ; 48°43′2.77"N 9°22′26.82"E
Heilbronn Power Station
Heilbronn Power Station
Heilbronn Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Heilbronn, Germany . It is operated by EnBW, until 1997 by EVS, and has seven units. The capacity of the three units is 950 MW, two units with a capacity of approx. 200 MW are in cold reserve...

 
820 ft 250 m 1130 MW Coal Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg 49°10′31.91"N 9°12′27.19"E ; 49°10′29.67"N 9°12′26.47"E
Hagenwerder Power Plant, Unit III 820 ft 250 m 1972/73 Coal Görlitz
Görlitz
Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...

/Hagenwerder, Saxony
51°3′42"N 14°56′55"E demolished by explosives on June 19, 1998
Wilhelmshaven Power Station
Wilhelmshaven Power Station
The Wilhelmshaven Power Station is a coal power station in the city of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Built in the middle of the 1970s, the power station has an output of 747 megawatts....

 
820 ft 250 m 1976 Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony
Mehrum Power Station
Mehrum Power Station
thumbMehrum Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Germany. It lies at the central land channel in Mehrum with Hohenhameln, district Peine. It has an installed capacity of 690 megawatts. Today the unit 3, commissioned in 1979, is still in use. The power station has 135 employees. The...

 
820 ft 250 m 690 MW Coal Hohenhameln, Lower Saxony 52°18′54.16"N 10°5′37.65"E
Merkenich Heating Power Station  820 ft 250 m 195 MW Natural gas, lignite Cologne, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°01′5.03"N 6°57′52.14"E
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station
Marl-Chemiepark Power Station is an ensemble of three thermal power-stations. One of these power stations has a 300 metre tall, another a 241 metre tall chimney.The 300 metre chimney was demolished at the beginning of the 1990s, using a special excavator....

 
791 ft 241 m Marl, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°41′4.4"N 7°5′59.62"E
Scholven A Power Station 789 ft 240,5 m Gelsenkirchen, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°35′59.83"N 7°0′20.27"E
Voerde Power Station  787 ft 240 m 2222 MW Coal Voerde, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°34′36.29"N 6°41′6.85"E
Bexbach Power Station
Bexbach Power Station
Bexbach Power Station is a coal-fired power station in the Bexbach municipality of Saarland, Germany. It has an output capacity of 773 megawatts. The chimney of the power station is 240 metres high. It can store up to 200,000 tons of coal. It is the most efficient power station in the...

 
787 ft 240 m 773 MW Coal Bexbach, Saarland 49°21′48.51"N 7°14′13.38"E
Cuno Power Station  787 ft 240 m Herdecke, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°24′15.41"N 7°24′49.09"E
Power Station Schwandorf 771 ft 235 m Lignite Schwandorf, Bavaria 49°18′13.82"N 12°4′39.05"E ; 49°18′14.42"N 12°4′35.33"E demolished
Weiher Power Station  761 ft 232 m 680 MW Coal Quierschied-Weiher, Saarland 49°20′5.23"N 7°2′7.85"E
Voerde Power Station  755 ft 230 m Voerde, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°34′43.66"N 6°40′45.13"E
Castrop-Rauxel Power Station 755 ft 230 m 290 MW Coal Castrop-Rauxel, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°34′49.37"N 7°18′49.19"E
Heyden Power Station
Heyden Power Station
Heyden power station is located near Petershagen in Germany. The current station was commissioned in 1987, but the site has been used for power generation since 1950. It is owned and operated by the German energy corporation E.ON....

 
745 ft 227 m 920 MW Coal Petershagen, Northrhine-Westphalia 52°22′53.79"N 8°59′55.2"E
Erfurt-Ost Heating Power Station 741 ft 226 m Erfurt, Thuringia 51 00 55 N 011 02 23 E demolished
Gera-Nord Heating Power Station (3 Essen) 738 ft 225 m Gera, Thuringia 50°54′18.59"N 12°3′48.34"E ; 50°54′17.65"N 12°3′44.96"E ; 50°54′15.69"N 12°3′48.6"E
Jena Heating Power Station 738 ft 225 m 225 MW Natural gas Jena, Thuringia 50°53′51.53"N 11°35′12.5"E
Altchemnitz Heating Power Station 738 ft 225 m Altchemnitz, Saxony 50°47′54.9"N 12°55′2.7"E
Schilling Power Station  722 ft 220 m 1962 Oil Stade, Lower Saxony 53°37′4"N 9°31′57"E demolished
Bayer-Power Station Leverkusen 722 ft 220 m Leverkusen, Northrhine-Westphalia were used until 1944 as carrier for Bayer Cross Leverkusen
Bayer Cross Leverkusen
The Bayer Cross in Leverkusen is the largest illuminated advertisement in the world. The advertisement is for Bayer, the multinational pharmaceutical company based in Leverkusen. The advertisement, installed in 1958, shows the emblem of the company Bayer. It hangs on two 118-metre steel towers and...

Zolling power station  722 ft 220 m 449 MW Coal, Biomass Zolling, Bavaria 48°27′19.05"N 11°47′58.25"E
West Power Station 715 ft 218 m 1970 Coal Voerde, Northrhine-Westphalia
Power Station Moers-Meerbeck 689 ft 210 m Coal Moers-Meerbeck, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°28′13.95"N 6°38′32.78"E
Power Station Dortmund-Derne 689 ft 210 m Coal Dortmund-Derne, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°34′12.38"N 7°31′40.98"E
Gustav Knepper Power Station
Gustav Knepper Power Station
Gustav Knepper Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Dortmund-Mengede, close to Castrop-Rauxel.Gustav Knepper Power Station was built on the area of former coal mine Gustav Knepper. Owner of the Gustav Knepper Power station first was the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, then the Bochumer...

 
689 ft 210 m 350 MW Coal Dortmund, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°34′06.52"N 7°20′56.77"E
Offleben Power Station  679 ft 207 m Lignite Offleben, Lower Saxony 52°08′45.64"N 11°01′41.92"E
Dresden-Reick Heating Power Station 669 ft 204 m Dresden-Reick, Saxony 51°1′28.14"N 13°46′59.78"E
Power Station Franken II 663 ft 202 m 1963/64 Erlangen, Bavaria 49°33′47"N 10°58′25"E demolished in 2001
Power Station Mannheim-Neckarau 656 ft 200 m 1521 MW ( 123 MW traction current) Coal Mannheim-Neckarau, Baden-Württemberg 49°26′40"N 8°29′53"E ; 49°26′36.73"N 8°30′9.76"E
Essen-Karnap Incineration Plant 656 ft 200 m Waste Essen-Karnap, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°30′53.98"N 6°59′37.93"E
Power Station Hamm-Schmehausen 656 ft 200 m 850 MW Natural gas Hamm-Schmehausen, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°40′49.1"N 7°58′12.7"E
Frimmersdorf Power Station
Frimmersdorf Power Station
Frimmersdorf Power Station, located in Grevenbroich, is one of the largest lignite-fired power stations in Germany. It has fourteen units with a total output capacity of 2,413 megawatts , of which 277 MW are used by the station itself...

 
656 ft 200 m 2265 MW Lignite Frimmersdorf, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°3′16.19"N 6°34′33.31"E ; 51°3′19.76"N 6°34′34.7"E ; 51°3′28.02"N 6°34′38.65"E
Irsching Power Station
Irsching Power Station
Irsching Power Station is close to the city of Vohburg, Germany and is operated as a so-called peak load power station. At present only unit 3 with a capacity of 440 MW is operated, the other two units, with a capacity of 150 MW and 300 MW , are in cold reserve. The power station can be operated...

 
656 ft 200 m 890 MW Natural gas, oil Irsching, Bavaria 48°46′1.32"N 11°34′45.19"E ; 48°46′1.48"N 11°34′49.46"E ;
48°46′1.43"N 11°34′52.92"E
Ingolstadt Power Station  656 ft 200 m 840 MW Oil Ingolstadt, Bavaria 48°45′43.23"N 11°30′11.73"E
Lauchhammer-South Heating Plant 656 ft 200 m Lauchhammer, Saxony 51 28 14 N 013 46 46 E demolished in 2002
Schkopau Power Station
Schkopau Power Station
The Schkopau Power Station is a lignite-fuelled power station near the Korbetha part of the municipality of Schkopau in the district of Merseburg-Querfurt , Germany, which was built in 1995/1996. It has two units with a total capacity of 916 megawatts , from which are 110 MW for traction...

 
656 ft 200 m 916 MW ( 110 MW traction current) Lignite Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt 51°23′54.44"N 11°57′1.17"E
Schwedt Power Station 656 ft 200 m Schwedt, Brandenburg 53°5′54.06"N 14°13′10.34"E
Asdonkshof Waste Incineration Plant 656 ft 200 m 1995 Waste Kamp-Lintfort, Northrhine-Westphalia 51°31′23.17"N 6°34′31.96"E
Braunschweig-Mitte Heating Power Plant 650 ft 198 m 1983 319 MW Braunschweig, Lower-Saxony 52°16′43.57"N 10°30′53.96"E
Wuppertal-Elberfeld Heating Power Plant 650 ft 198 m 100 MW Wuppertal 51°14′54.19"N 7°7′7.61"E
Bremen-Mittelsbüren Power Plant 646 ft 197 m 280 MW ( also traction current) Bremen 53°07′44.33"N 8°41′0.22"E
Neurath Power Plant 640 ft 195 m 2100 MW Grevenbroich 51°02′16.15"N 6°36′42.77"E
Robert Frank Power Plant 594 ft 181 m 500 MW Landesbergen
Ensdorf Power Plant 591 ft 180 m 430 MW Ensdorf 49°17′40.04"N 6°46′18.13"E
Stuttgart-Münster Power Plant 591 ft 180 m 164 MW Stuttgart 48°48′55.31"N 9°13′11.07"E
Weisweiler Power Plant 591 ft 180 m 2293 MW Eschweiler 50°50′21.14"N 6°19′25.88"E
Römerbrücke Heating Power Plant 581 ft 177 m 110 MW Saarbrücken 49°13′25.15"N 7°00′53.71"E
Munich-South Heating Power Plant 574 ft 175 m Natural gas, oil 698 MW Munich 48°6′50.53"N 11°33′20.82"E
Pleinting Power Plant 574 ft 175 m 725 MW Pleinting 48°40′8.78"N 13°6′31"E
Black Pump Power Plant 564 ft 172 m 1600 MW Lignite Spremberg 51°32′8.93"N 14°21′17.11"E
Berlin-Klingenberg Power Plant 554 ft 169 m 188 MW Berlin 52°29′24.09"N 13°29′45.39"E
Berlin-Lichtenberg Power Plant 554 ft 169 m 36 MW Berlin 52°31′24.25"N 13°31′19.96"E
Datteln Power Plant 541 ft 165 m 303 MW ( also traction current) Datteln 51°37′48.16"N 7°19′52.73"E
Emsland Natural Gas Power Plant 525 ft 160 m 864 MW Natural gas Lingen 52°28′50.93"N 7°18′20.11"E
Stuttgart-Gaisburg Power Plant 525 ft 160 m 60 MW Stuttgart 48°46′56.09"N 9°13′52.81"E
Völklingen-Fenne Power Plant 525 ft 160 m 600 MW Völklingen 49°14′58.48"N 6°52′53.2"E
Wolfsburg-West Heating Power Plant 525 ft 160 m 300 MW Wolfsburg
Marbach Power Plant 525 ft 160 m Marbach 48°55′38.89"N 9°13′48.26"E
Berlin-Lichterfelde Power Plant 518 ft 158 m 450 MW Berlin 52°25′29.81"N 13°18′35.4"E
Wedel Heating Power Plant 495 ft 151 m Wedel 53°33′59.25"N 9°43′32.14"E
Bremen-Farge Power Plant 492 ft 150 m 343 MW Bremen 53°12′7.65"N 8°30′57.96"E
Franken I Power Plant 492 ft 150 m 843 MW Nuremberg 49°25′14.88"N 11°00′27.64"E
Lausward Power Plant 492 ft 150 m 520 MW ( also traction current) Düsseldorf 51°13′15.03"N 6°43′53.66"E
Lingen Reffinery Power Plant 492 ft 150 m 68 MW Lingen 52°33′43.33"N 7°18′9.49"E
Walheim Power Plant 486 ft 148 m 253 MW Coal Walheim 49°01′6.38"N 9°9′26.39"E
Rostock Power Plant 464 ft 141.5 m 600 MW Coal Rostock 54°08′34.24"N 12°7′58.62"E
Flensburg Heating Power Plant 459 ft 140 m 170 MW Flensburg
Veltheim Power Plant 459 ft 140 m 880 MW Veltheim
Karlsruhe-West Heating Power Plant 459 ft 140 m 170 MW Karlsruhe 49°0′50.98"N 8°20′51.56"E
Wuppertal-Barmen Heating Power Plant 449 ft 137 m 56 MW Wuppertal 51°16′8.86"N 7°12′1.71"E
Bochum Heating Power Plant 427 ft 130 m 21 MW Bochum 51°27′5.69"N 7°13′10.73"E
Munich-North Heating Power Plant 427 ft 130 m 360 MW Munich 48°10′52.44"N 11°38′23.36"E
Goldenberg Power Plant 410 ft 125 m 171 MW Hürth 50°51′40.47"N 6°50′7.34"E
Berlin-Reutter/West Power Plant 400 ft 122 m 600 MW Berlin-Charlottenburg 52°32′4.45"N 13°14′40.32"E
Berlin-Reutter 400 ft 122 m 165 MW Berlin-Charlottenburg 52°31′51.89"N 13°14′44.49"E
Emden Power Plant 394 ft 120 m 450 MW Emden
Sindelfingen Heating Power Plant 394 ft 120 m Sindelfingen 48°41′48.83"N 8°59′57.39"E
Berlin-Buch Power Plant 394 ft 120 m 1974 5 MW Berlin 52°38′6"N 13°30′37.17"E
Wolfsburg Heating Power Plant 387 ft 118 m 140 MW Wolfsburg
Kiel Power Plant 371 ft 113 m 354 MW Kiel
Hannover-Herrenhausen Power Plant 361 ft 110 m 105 MW Hannover
Berlin-Charlottenburg Heating Power Plant 341 ft 104 m 215 MW Berlin-Charlottenburg 52°31′19.76"N 13°18′31.18"E
Berlin-Wilmersdorf Heating Power Plant 335 ft 102 m 330 MW Berlin-Mitte 52°28′53.89"N 13°18′28.32"E
Berlin-Mitte Heating Power Plant 328 ft 100 m 440 MW Berlin-Mitte 52°30′41.73"N 13°25′15.57"E
Hannover-Linden Power Plant 328 ft 100 m 100 MW Hannover
Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt 320 ft 97.5 m Coal, Waste 126 MW Schweinfurt 50°1′48.31"N 10°13′24.98"E
Bridge of Nossen Heating Power Plant 262 ft 80 m 270 MW Dresden 51°02′30.47"N 13°42′29.6"E
Ingolstadt Waste Incineration Plant 262 ft 80 m Ingolstadt
Shamrock Power Plant 249 ft 76 m 132 MW Herne
GuD-Heating Station Knapsack 230 ft 70 m 800 MW Hürth
Hannover-Stöcken Power Plant 230 ft 70 m 230 MW Hannover 52°25′13"N 9°38′51.03"E
Leuna Power Station 230 ft 70 m 158 MW Leuna 51°17′53.19"N 12°01′10.22"E
Kirchmöser Power Station 230 ft 70 m 160 MW ( traction current) Brandenburg 52°23′40.55"N 12°25′4.97"E
Kirchlengern Power Plant 217 ft 66 m 182 MW Kirchlengern
Magdeburg Waste Power Plant 197 ft 60 m 150 MW Magdeburg
Kempten Waste Power Plant 197 ft 60 m Kempten
Berlin-Moabit Heating Power Plant 150 MW Berlin-Moabit 52°32′15"N 13°20′45"E
Berrenrath Industrial Power Plant 107 MW Berrenrath 50°51′55.2"N 6°49′26.8"E
Bremen-Hastedt Power Plant 280 MW Bremen 53°03′35.2"N 8°52′23.4"E
Freimann Heating Power Plant 160 MW Munich 48°11′18"N 11°36′42"E
West Heating Power Plant 410 ft 125 m 244 MW Frankfurt
Ahrensfelde Power Plant 89 ft 27 m 152 MW Ahrensfelde
Trianel GuD-Power Plant Hamm-Uentrop 850 MW Hamm
Huckingen Power Plant 600 MW Duisburg-Huckingen
Dormagen Power Plant 410 MW Dormagen
Thyrow Gas Turbine Power Plant 300 MW Thyrow
Frankfurt Traction Current Power Plant 1966 12 MW Frankfurt 50°05′48.88"N 8°39′5.26"E only traction current
Kassel Power Plant 34 MW Kassel
Bremen-Findorff Waste Incineration Plant 15.3 MW Bremen 53°6′51"N 8°49′1"E
Baunatal Heating Power Plant 42 MW Kassel-Baunatal
Emden-Biomass Power Plant 20 MW Emden
Berlin-Köpenick Power Plant 10 MW Berlin 52°26′7"N 13°34′54"E
Hannover-Kronsberg Heating Power Plant 1.17 MW Hannover-Kronsberg
Völklingen-Scheiben Power Plant Völklingen
Weissenhorn Waste Incineration Plant Weissenhorn
Hermann Wenzel Power Plant Duisburg

Hydroelectric

Station Capacity (MW) Town
Town
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Geographical coordinates Status
Bad Abbach Power Station 3.5 MW ( traction current) Bad Abbach 48.94638809°N 12.01305556°E Operational
Aufkirchen Power Station  40 ( 13 MW traction current) Aufkirchen 48.3052492°N 11.8577135°E Operational
Bad Säckingen Power Station  73.6 Bad Säckingen 47.5577658°N 7.956714°E Operational
Bergheim Power Station  23.7 ( only traction current) Bad Säckingen 48.7507492°N 11.2729812°E Operational
Bertoldsheim Power Station  18.9 ( only traction current) Rennertshofen 48.735722°N 11.0208321°E Operational
Bettenberg Power Station  0.2 Nagold 48.600881°N 8.73715°E Operational
Bittenbrunn Power Station  20.2 ( only traction current) Bittenbrunn 48.7344448°N 11.1436504°E Operational
Dettingen Power Station  11 Dettingen 48.112167°N 10.133225°E Operational
Eitting Power Station  ? ( only traction current) Eitting 48.3589581°N 11.8827975°E Operational
Fankel Power Station  16.4 Fankel 50.124044°N 7.227222°E Operational
Forggensee Dam  45.5 Rosshaupten 47.6542518°N 10.7497251°E Operational
Iffezheim Power Station  104 Iffezheim 48.8327607°N 8.1104851°E Operational
Ingolstadt Hydroelectric Power Station  19.8 ( only traction current) Ingolstadt 48.7503672°N 11.4119518°E Operational
Kachlet Power Station  52 Passau 48.5791554°N 13.4073865°E Operational
Koblenz Power Station  16 Koblenz 50.365783°N 7.581553°E Operational
Laufenburg Power Station  106 Laufenburg 47.5566146°N 8.0480593°E Operational
Möhne Dam
Möhne Reservoir
The Möhne Reservoir is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, some 45 km east of Dortmund. The dam was built between 1908 and 1913 to help control floods, regulate water levels on the Ruhr river downstream, and generate hydropower. Today, the lake is also a tourist attraction...

 
7.04 Günne 51.4896339°N 8.0589706°E Operational
Mühlhausen Power Station  1.68 Mühlacker 48.933664°N 8.90195°E Operational
Pfrombach Power Station  ? ( also traction current) Pfrombach 48.4413727°N 11.9928968°E Operational
Rheinfelden Power Station  25.7 Rheinfelden 47.5700403°N 7.8126848°E Operational
Ryburg-Schwörstadt Power Station  120 Schwörstadt 47.5868403°N 7.8338555°E Operational
Serrig Power Station  12.1 Serrig 49.566669°N 6.592558°E Operational
Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station  124 ( 52 MW traction current) Kochel am See 47.6298189°N 11.3374454°E Operational
Wendefurth Power Station
Wendefurth Power Station
Wendefurth Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station on the reservoir of the Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz mountains of central Germany....

 
80 Wendefurth 51.7390417°N 10.9071493°E Operational
Wyhlen Dam  38.5 Grenzach-Wyhlen 47.5389195°N 7.7076817°E Operational
Schärding-Neuhaus Power Station  96 Neuhaus am Inn 48.4354009°N 13.4388113°E Operational
Sylvenstein Dam  7 Langleger 47.5863428°N 11.549651°E Operational
Söse Dam
Söse Dam
The Söse Dam is a dam in the Lower Saxon part of the Harz mountains near Osterode in the German state of Lower Saxony.It was the first dam to be built in the Harz and was constructed by the Harzwasserwerke between 1928 and 1931. It is used for flood prevention, electricity generation, supplying...

 
1.44 Osterode am Harz 51.7386962°N 10.310626°E Operational

Pumped-storage hydroelectric

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Geographic coordinate system
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represent vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent horizontal position...

 
Status
Albbecken Pumped Storage Station ( Witznau Pumped Storage Station) 220 128 Witznau 47.6878681°N 8.2514513°E Operational
Bleiloch Pumped Storage Station  80 ? Remptendorf 50.5252824°N 11.7150521°E Operational
Dhron Valley Dam  8.1 ? Heidenburg 49.796274°N 6.8985558°E Since 1995 no pump operation
Erzhausen Pumped Storage Station  250 ? Erzhausen 51.8986677°N 9.9248707°E Operational
Geesthacht Pumped Storage Station  131 ? Geesthacht 53.4191238°N 10.3936458°E Operational
Glems Pumped Storage Station  90 ? Glems 48.5051789°N 9.2872453°E Operational
Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station
Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station
The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pump-fed power station in the Thüringer slate mountains at the upper run of the Schwarza between Goldisthal and disk when brook and in the year 2003 in enterprise was taken. It is with an output of 1.060 MW the largest hydro-electric power plant of Germany...

 
1060 ? Goldisthal 50.5080843°N 11.0044706°E Operational
Happurg Pumped Storage Station  176 ? Happurg 49.4870295°N 11.4747262°E Operational
Häusern Pumped Storage Station  140 ? Häusern 47.7553855°N 8.1883067°E Operational
Hohenwarte II Pumped Storage Station  320 ? Hohenwarte 50.6040914°N 11.4749408°E Operational
Hotzenwald Pumped Storage Station  992 ? Wehr 47.6523655°N 7.9256701°E Operational
Koepchenwerk Pumped Storage Station  153 ? Herdecke 51.411363°N 7.4541378°E Operational
Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station
Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station
The Langenprozelten Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage power power station near Gemünden am Main at the [Main in the under-Frankish district Main Spessart , which went in service in 1976. The hydro-electric power plant has an output of 180 MW...

 
160 ( only traction current) ? Langenprozelten 50.0531314°N 9.5813522°E Operational
Leitzach Pumped Storage Station  93 ? Vagen 47.8740619°N 11.8701214°E Operational
Markersbach Pumped Storage Station  1050 ? Markersbach 50.5175266°N 12.8806436°E Operational
Mittweida Pumped Storage Station  1.65 ? Mittweida 50.9895028°N 13.0066431°E Defunct
Niederwartha Pumped Storage Station  120 ? Niederwartha 51.0913301°N 13.6100435°E Operational
Oder Valley Dam  5.04 ? Bad Lauterberg 51.6460663°N 10.5031013°E Operational
Ortenberg-Lissberg Pumped Storage Station  2.3 ? Ortenberg 50.3763118°N 9.092592°E Operational
Reisach Pumped Storage Station  105 ? Reisach 49.530104°N 12.2845924°E Operational
Rönkhausen Pumped Storage Station  160 ? Rönkhausen-Glinge 51.2247664°N 7.9933155°E Operational
Rudolf-Fettweis-Power Plant  44 ? Forbach 48.6685328°N 8.3530855°E Operational
Rusel Power Plant  44 ? Deggendorf-Mietraching 48.8592093°N 13.0070293°E Operational
Säckingen Pumped Storage Station  472 ? Bad Säckingen 47.5656065°N 7.9536295°E Operational
Tanzmühle Pumped Storage Station  25.2 ? Döllnitz 49.5521595°N 12.281127°E Operational
Waldeck I Pumped Storage Station  146 ? Hemfurth-Edersee 51.1661452°N 9.0463078°E Operational
Waldeck II Pumped Storage Station  440 ? Hemfurth-Edersee 51.1665488°N 9.0465868°E Operational
Waldshut Pumped Storage Station  176 ? Waldshut 47.6176199°N 8.192625°E Operational
Warmutsgund Pumped Storage Station  4.72 ? Obersdorf 47.3495674°N 10.2657473°E Operational
Wendefurth Pumped Storage Station  80 ? Wendefurth 51.7390151°N 10.9072566°E Operational
Wisenta Pumped Storage Station  3.3 ? Crispendorf 50.5763182°N 11.7171872°E Operational

Photovoltaic

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54 MW Strasskirchen  Strasskirchen Solar Park
Strasskirchen Solar Park
The Strasskirchen Solar Park is the eighth largest photovoltaic power station in the world, with an installed capacity of 54 MW. It was developed by a joint venture of MEMC and Q-Cells in 2009...

 
53 MW Lieberose Photovoltaic Park
Lieberose Photovoltaic Park
The Lieberose Photovoltaic Park is a 52.79 megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant in Lieberose, Brandenburg, Germany. The solar park with 700,000 solar panels which went fully on line in October 2009, is the world's third-largest, and will supply electricity for 15,000 households a year while...

 
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45 MW Kothen Solar Park
Köthen Solar Park
The Köthen Solar Park is a photovoltaic power station in Köthen, Germany. It has a capacity of 45 MWp and an annual output of 42 GWh. The solar park is developed and built by RGE Energy.....

 
42 MW Finsterwalde Solar Park
Finsterwalde Solar Park
The Finsterwalde Solar Park is as of November 2010 the world’s largest photovoltaic plant with 80.7 MWp. The project is located in Finsterwalde, Germany and developed by Q-Cells International and LDK Solar. It is equipped with Q-Cells modules and LDK solar wafers. The first phase of the project...

 
Muldentalkreis
Muldentalkreis
The Muldentalkreis is a former district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It was bounded by the districtsDelitzsch, Torgau-Oschatz, Döbeln, Mittweida and Leipziger Land.- History :...

 
(see Waldpolenz Solar Park
Waldpolenz Solar Park
Waldpolenz Solar Park, which is the world’s largest thin-film photovoltaic power system, was built by German developer and operator Juwi at a former military air base to the east of Leipzig in Germany. The power plant is a 40 MW solar power system using state-of-the-art thin film technology, and...

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> 40,000 MW·h
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Arnstein
Arnstein
Arnstein is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.- Location :...

 
SOLON
Solon SE
Solon SE is a German solar energy company. It is headquartered in Berlin. Solon SE produces photovoltaic modules at its production sites in Greifswald , Steinach in Tirol , Carmignano di Brenta Solon SE is a German solar energy company. It is headquartered in Berlin. Solon SE produces photovoltaic...

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(see Erlasee Solar Park
Erlasee Solar Park
The Erlasee Solar Park, also sometimes called the Gut Erlasee Solar Park, is a photovoltaic power station located in one of the sunniest regions of Germany. On the former wine-producing Erlasee estate near Arnstein in Bavaria, in southern Germany, Solon SE has constructed what is currently the...

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Pocking
Pocking
Pocking is a town in the district of Passau, in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is situated about 30 km south-west of Passau, close to the Austrian border.-History:...

 
(see Pocking Solar Park
Pocking Solar Park
The Pocking Solar Park is a 10 megawatt solar power plant. Construction and assembly of the power plant started in August 2005 and was completed in March 2006...

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> 11,500 MW·h
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Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district, and lies along the river Unstrut. Mühlhausen had c. 37,000 inhabitants in 2006.-History:...

 
(see Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark, is a 10 Megawatt photovoltaic power station separated into 3 different locations in Germany. Solarpark Mühlhausen is 6.3 MW located in Mühlhausen, Germany. Solarpark Günching is 1.9 MW located in Günching, Germany. Solarpark Minihof is 1.9 MW located in Minihof, Germany...

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> 6,750 MW·h
0.12 >-
|   5 MW
Bürstadt
Bürstadt
Bürstadt is a town in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany, 7 km east of Worms, and 17 km north of Mannheim.-Location:Bürstadt lies in the Rhine rift between the Rhine and the Odenwald, and thereby in the Hessisches Ried....

 
BP Solar
BP Solar
BP has been involved in solar power since 1973 and its subsidiary, BP Solar, is a solar power company with production facilities in India and the People's Republic of China, employing a workforce of over 2,000 people worldwide. BP Solar is worldwide manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic solar...

 modules
> 4,200 MW·h
0.10 >-
|   5 MW
Espenhain
Espenhain
Espenhain is a municipality in the Leipzig district, in Saxony, Germany.-Solar power plant:The solar power plant Espenhain Leipzig is in the municipality. This power plant is a photovoltaic power station. It is a partnership project of the Berlin project development company Geosol and Shell...

 
> 5,000 MW·h 0.11 >-
|   4 MW
Merseburg
Merseburg
Merseburg is a town in the south of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the river Saale, approx. 14 km south of Halle . It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a diocese founded by Archbishop Adalbert of Magdeburg....

 
(see Geiseltalsee Solarpark
Geiseltalsee Solarpark
Geiseltalsee Solarpark, also known as Geiseltalsee, is a 4 MWp photovoltaic power plant located in Merseburg, Germany. The power plant was constructed by BP Solar using 24,864 BP solar modules. The power station was completed in 2004...

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> 3,400 MW·h
0.10 >-
|   4 MW
Gottelborn 50,000 solar modules 8,200 MW·h 0.23 >-
|   4 MW
Hemau
Hemau
Hemau is a small town in Southern Germany, in the district of Regensburg. The town is situated on the Tangrintel, a ridge which runs between the rivers Altmühl and Schwarze Laber....

 
32,740 solar modules 3,900 MW·h 0.11 >-
|   3.3 MW
Dingolfing
Dingolfing
Dingolfing is a town in Southern Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the Landkreis Dingolfing-Landau.- History :The area now called Dingolfing was first mentioned in Tinguluinga in the year 833....

 
Sharp
Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...

 and Kyocera
Kyocera
is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...

 solar modules
> 3,050 MW·h
0.11 >-
|   1.9 MW
Guenching (see Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark, is a 10 Megawatt photovoltaic power station separated into 3 different locations in Germany. Solarpark Mühlhausen is 6.3 MW located in Mühlhausen, Germany. Solarpark Günching is 1.9 MW located in Günching, Germany. Solarpark Minihof is 1.9 MW located in Minihof, Germany...

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|   1.9 MW
Minihof (see Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark
Bavaria Solarpark, is a 10 Megawatt photovoltaic power station separated into 3 different locations in Germany. Solarpark Mühlhausen is 6.3 MW located in Mühlhausen, Germany. Solarpark Günching is 1.9 MW located in Günching, Germany. Solarpark Minihof is 1.9 MW located in Minihof, Germany...

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