Open data on every power plant

Global power plant database

Name: Global power plants dataset — 42,731 facilities
Creator: PowerAtlas
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: power plants, electricity generation, capacity, CO2 emissions, energy, power stations

Capacity, fuel, owner, location and emissions for 42,731 power plants worldwide — one clean, source-cited page each. Built entirely on open data (WRI, Climate TRACE, EPA, EU ETS, Open-Meteo), with owner portfolios, rankings and climate context no map or dataset offers.

42,731power plants

10.8M MWtotal capacity

2436company portfolios

4,155with asset-level CO₂

10.8M MW

of power generation capacity mapped across the world

Browse by region

Asia

47 countries · 13,050 plants

North America

14 countries · 12,742 plants

United States of America10884

Europe

38 countries · 11,103 plants

South America

13 countries · 3,480 plants

Africa

49 countries · 968 plants

Oceania

4 countries · 613 plants

Browse by fuel

Solar

10,663 plants worldwide

Hydro

7,153 plants worldwide

Gas

6,672 plants worldwide

Wind

5,342 plants worldwide

Coal

5,226 plants worldwide

Biomass

2,872 plants worldwide

Oil

2,649 plants worldwide

Waste

1,089 plants worldwide

What makes these pages different

Incumbents publish datasets, maps and PDFs — not pages. Climate TRACE's facilities live only as map markers; WRI is a CSV; Global Energy Monitor is a wiki. PowerAtlas turns the same open data into a clean indexable page per plant and per company, adds the things nobody aggregates — owner fleet footprints, dirtiest-plant rankings, human-scale CO₂ equivalents and fuel-specific climate context — each figure linked to its public source.

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