PowerPlantDB
107 famous power stations worldwide, from Hoover Dam and Three Gorges to Fukushima Daiichi and Drax. Browse by technology and country, with capacity and commissioning facts for hydro, nuclear, coal, gas, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and biomass plants.
Key Plants
Three Gorges Dam
The worlds largest power station, 22,500 MW across the Yangtze River at Sandouping....
Itaipu Dam
14,000 MW binational hydroelectric dam on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay....
Hoover Dam
2,080 MW Art Deco arch gravity dam taming the Colorado River since 1936....
Grand Coulee Dam
6,809 MW Columbia River dam, the largest power plant in the United States....
Fukushima Daiichi
Six reactor coastal site struck by the March 2011 tsunami disaster....
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Site of the 1986 reactor 4 accident, the worst nuclear disaster in history....
Drax Power Station
About 2,600 MW of converted biomass units, the largest power plant in the UK....
Tuoketuo Power Station
6,720 MW station in Inner Mongolia, the largest coal plant in the world....
Gansu Wind Farm
Over 8,000 MW operating with 20,000 MW planned, the largest wind power base on Earth....
Bhadla Solar Park
2,245 MW park in the Rajasthan desert, the largest PV cluster in the world on completion....
The Geysers
About 900 MW operating across a dry steam field in Northern California, the largest geothermal complex on Earth....
Noor Ouarzazate Complex
580 MW concentrated solar complex on the edge of the Sahara....
La Rance Tidal Power Station
240 MW barrage across the Rance estuary, the first large tidal plant ever built....
Bath County Pumped Storage Station
3,003 MW in Virginia, tied as the largest pumped storage plant in the world....
Barakah
5,600 MW plant, the first commercial nuclear station in the Arab world....
Belchatow Power Station
About 5,100 MW lignite station, the largest power plant in Europe by capacity....