Austria has 103 power plants in this atlas, with 11,227 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Simmering (1,272 MW, gas; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are hydro, wind and gas. Grid operators listed here include Austrian Power Grid and Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz. Electricity is regulated by E-Control. Renewables supplied 86.2% of its electricity in 2024.
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.
Grid operators and electricity market 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.
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.
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.
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.
