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RWE Power AG — power plant portfolio

RWE Power AG operates 20 power plants across 2 countries, with a combined installed capacity of 16,302 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 548,500 t CO₂/yr.

20power plants
16,302MW total capacity
2countries
548,500t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Coal: 9 plants9CoalGas: 5 plants5GasWaste: 2 plants2WasteHydro: 2 plants2HydroWind: 1 plants1WindCogeneration: 1 plants1Cogenerati…

Fleet interpretation

RWE Power AG is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 2 countries; the largest concentration is Germany (17), United Kingdom (3).

The fuel mix by asset count is coal (9), gas (5), waste (2), hydro (2). The largest listed asset is Niederaussem power station in Germany (3,430 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 815 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 9 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 8 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 20 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Niederaussem power stationCoalGermany3,43013,310,981
BoA 2CoalGermany2,10016,485,448
Neurath power stationCoalGermany2,068
GersteinwerkGasGermany2,00417,373
EmslandGasGermany1,8371,435,658
Weisweiler power stationCoalGermany1,800
Ibbenbüren-B power stationCoalGermany794
DormagenGasGermany586
Gwynt y MorWindUnited Kingdom576
Frimmersdorf power stationCoalGermany562
KoepchenwerkHydroGermany153
Wachtberg power stationCoalGermany118548,500
Markinch CHPCogenerationUnited Kingdom65
Huerth Ville / Berrenrath power stationCoalGermany52794,987
KarnapWasteGermany38
DolgarrogHydroUnited Kingdom32
DortmundGasGermany2610,656
MVA WeisweilerWasteGermany249,239,933
BochumGasGermany2162,794
Fortuna NordCoalGermany15

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does RWE Power AG operate?

RWE Power AG operates 20 power plants across 2 countries, with about 16,302 MW of total capacity.

What is RWE Power AG's largest power plant?

Niederaussem power station in Germany is its largest at about 3,430 MW.

What types of power plants does RWE Power AG run?

Its fleet is mostly coal (9), gas (5), waste (2).

How much CO₂ do RWE Power AG's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 548,500 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology