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Vattenfall Europe Generation AG — power plant portfolio

Vattenfall Europe Generation AG operates 21 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 14,175 MW. Its plants with asset-level emissions data total 9,058,490 t CO₂/yr.

21power plants
14,175MW total capacity
1countries
9,058,490t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Coal: 10 plants10CoalHydro: 7 plants7HydroGas: 2 plants2GasOil: 2 plants2Oil

Fleet interpretation

Vattenfall Europe Generation AG is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is Germany (21).

The fuel mix by asset count is coal (10), hydro (7), gas (2), oil (2). The largest listed asset is Janschwalde power station in Germany (3,000 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 694 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 5 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 3 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 21 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Janschwalde power stationCoalGermany3,00019,007
Boxberg power stationCoalGermany2,582
Hamburg-MoorburgCoalGermany1,600
Schwarze Pumpe power stationCoalGermany1,6009,660,155
GoldisthalHydroGermany1,060
MarkersbachHydroGermany1,046
Lippendorf power stationCoalGermany875
Berlin-Reuter-West power stationCoalGermany5641,254,450
Wedel power stationCoalGermany3911,072,163
HohenwarteHydroGermany320
ThyrowGasGermany296
BrunsbüttelOilGermany254
Tiefstack power stationCoalGermany194
AhrensfeldeGasGermany150
Berlin-Reuter power stationCoalGermany124
GeesthachtHydroGermany119
WedelOilGermany101
Berlin-Moabit power stationCoalGermany100272,890
BleilochHydroGermany80
WendefurthHydroGermany80
NiederwarthaHydroGermany40

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 Vattenfall Europe Generation AG operate?

Vattenfall Europe Generation AG operates 21 power plants across 1 country, with about 14,175 MW of total capacity.

What is Vattenfall Europe Generation AG's largest power plant?

Janschwalde power station in Germany is its largest at about 3,000 MW.

What types of power plants does Vattenfall Europe Generation AG run?

Its fleet is mostly coal (10), hydro (7), gas (2).

How much CO₂ do Vattenfall Europe Generation AG's plants emit?

Its reporting plants emit about 9,058,490 tonnes of CO₂ per year in this dataset.

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