Tyin is a 390 MW hydro power station in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is operated by Norsk Hydro ASA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 390k homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 307 Norway power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2004, it is around 22 years old — relatively modern. 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 WRI1003597.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 390 MW for Tyin hydroelectric plant, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: A2_MEDIUM_REVIEW - recommended action: manual_source_check - confidence: medium. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000602995); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 390 MW, Tyin is well above the median hydro plant in Norway (43 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Norsk Hydro ASA [100%].
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a Mediterranean subarctic climate (Köppen Dsc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 61.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #12 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 61.297, 7.8501 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tyin is a 390 MW source-record hydro power plant in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, commissioned in 2004.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 390,445 homes (estimated).
Tyin is operated by Norsk Hydro ASA [100%].
