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JRC Hydro-power plants database

map of hydro-power plants

The development of this dataset started as an output of the Energy work package of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus project at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). This dataset has been created for power system modelling purposes and it is based on publicly available sources. This dataset tries to collect some basic information on all the European hydro-power plants. Other related datasets are available in the JRC Data Catalogue.

The dataset contains the following variables (documented in the data package JSON):

The storage capacity is reported only when directly available from the source, thus is not estimated or derived from the other variables.

This dataset is released under CC-BY-4.0 license. This dataset is an open project and it is not an official product of the European Commission.

Discuss & Contribute

If you have any question or comment the best way would be to add a post in the Issues to keep track of open and closed issues/questions. If you want to contribute please send me an email or submit a Pull Request on this repository.

Author and contributors

Here a list of all the people which have personally contributed to this dataset. If you think that your name should be here please send me an email.

Coverage

The dataset contains 4179 hydro-power plants. This is a table summarising the installed capacity in GW for all the countries appearing in the database.

countryGW
Albania2.1
Austria13.5
Belgium1.4
Bosnia and Herzegovina2.0
Bulgaria2.9
Croatia2.1
Czechia1.9
Finland2.6
France20.6
Germany10.8
Greece3.4
Hungary0.0
Ireland0.5
Italy19.4
Kosovo0.1
Latvia1.5
Lithuania1.0
Montenegro0.7
Norway33.0
North Macedonia0.6
Poland2.1
Portugal8.0
Romania6.2
Serbia2.8
Slovakia2.5
Slovenia1.2
Spain16.1
Sweden13.9
Switzerland19.2
United Kingdom4.3

Sources

The database has been built collecting the information from several other sources and then cross-checking and comparing in case of inconsistencies. The list of the used sources is here: