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Dejefors

Hydro power plant in Vaermland, Sweden. Approximate location 59.6167, 13.4667.

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Dejefors is a 20 MW hydro power plant in Vaermland, Sweden. It is operated by Fortum. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 20,022 homes (estimated). It ranks #115 of 168 Sweden power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1906, it is around 120 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 40.0% of Sweden's electricity; the national grid averages 35 gCO₂/kWh (98.8% low-carbon) (2025).

20MW installed capacity
20,022homes powered (est.)
1906commissioned (~120 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019372.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Sweden

Karlshamn: 1,020 MW1kKarlshamnHarspranget: 871 MW871HarsprangetStornorrfors: 599 MW599Stornorrfo…Letsi: 486 MW486LetsiMessaure: 463 MW463MessaurePorjus: 430 MW430PorjusLigga: 332 MW332LiggaVietas: 325 MW325Vietas

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Fortum. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 59.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.3°Cannual mean temp
4,629heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
95 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -5 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 4 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 16 °CJA: 15 °CAS: 10 °CSO: 6 °CON: 0 °CND: -4 °CD16 °C

Heating degree-days here run 88% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 92/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #94 largest hydro power plant of 142 in Sweden by capacity.

Sweden has 142 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 12,823 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 59.6167, 13.4667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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