Svean is a 42 MW hydro power plant in Sor-Trondelag, Norway. It ranks #164 of 307 Norway power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 90.0% of Norway's electricity; the national grid averages 28 gCO₂/kWh (99.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1003553.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 42 MW, Svean is around the median hydro plant in Norway (43 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #151 largest hydro power plant of 291 in Norway by capacity.
Norway has 291 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 28,512 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 63.2793, 10.4728 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Svean is a 42 MW hydro power plant in Sor-Trondelag, Norway, Pre Construction 2027.
