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Power plants in Austria

103 power-plant records · 11,227 MW reported capacity

  • Hydro 93%
  • Wind 4%
  • Gas 3%
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Austria at a glance

Power-plant records
103
Reported capacity
11,227 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
86.2%
Most records
Hydro, Wind
Capital
Vienna

Records by technology

Counts records, not generation share · coverage & dates

Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.

How electricity works in Austria

Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail

Hydropower from the Alps is the backbone, balanced with wind, solar and gas. Electricity is traded on day-ahead and intraday exchanges coupled across the EU, so prices are set by the whole European market. Households can switch supplier.

  1. GenerationCompeting generators
  2. TransmissionIndependent grid operator
  3. DistributionRegulated local networks
  4. CustomersYou choose a supplier

Who regulates

Who controls the grid

Austrian Power Grid (APG), owned by Verbund, runs the high-voltage grid; regional companies such as Wiener Netze own the local networks.

Markets & power exchanges

Regional grid

  • ENTSO-E · Continental European gridRegional grid

    Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.

What does “Liberalised market” mean?

Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.

References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Austria generates electricity

Electricity generated78.5 TWh
Renewable share86.2%
Low-carbon share86.2%
Carbon intensity103.5 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro45.7 TWh
Wind9.1 TWh
Solar8.1 TWh
Bioenergy4.7 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear0 TWh
Coal0 TWh
Gas7.5 TWh
Other fossil3.3 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

The Eastern Alps dominate western and central Austria, opening into the Danube basin toward the east. Mountain valleys and the Danube corridor are key geographic contexts for its power stations.

Capital
Vienna
Languages
German
Major cities
Vienna, Graz, Linz

Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.

The source inventory contains 103 records for Austria. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.

Inventory coverage

103 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.

0 lack an owner/operator; 6 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
THE GENERATION INVENTORY

List of power plants in Austria

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Browse 103 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.

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1,272 MW
Owner in source
Wien Energie
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
2009
Source status
Operating status unverified
Wien Energie · historical recordDetails & map
400 MW
Owner in source
Energie AG Oberösterreich
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
2008
Source status
Operating status unverified
Energie AG · historical recordDetails & map
355 MW
Owner in source
Verbund
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1977
Source status
Operating status unverified
Verbund · historical recordDetails & map
293 MW
Owner in source
Verbund
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1985
Source status
Operating status unverified
Verbund · historical recordDetails & map

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