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Power plants in Spain

829 power-plant records · 79,035 MW reported capacity

  • Wind 41%
  • Solar 29%
  • Hydro 15%
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Spain at a glance

Power-plant records
829
Reported capacity
79,035 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
57.3%
Most records
Wind, Solar
Grid operator
Red Eléctrica
Capital
Madrid

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 Spain

Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail

Wind and solar now supply around half of electricity. OMIE runs the Iberian day-ahead market; households can choose the regulated PVPC tariff, which follows hourly prices.

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

Who regulates

  • CNMCEnergy regulator

Who controls the grid

Red Eléctrica (Redeia) runs transmission; distribution is split among i-DE (Iberdrola), e-distribución (Endesa) and others.

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 Spain generates electricity

Electricity generated280.9 TWh
Renewable share57.3%
Low-carbon share76.8%
Carbon intensity146.2 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro34.4 TWh
Wind62.2 TWh
Solar58.3 TWh
Bioenergy6.2 TWh
Other renewables0.01 TWh
Nuclear54.5 TWh
Coal2.6 TWh
Gas52.3 TWh
Other fossil10.4 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

Spain occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula, with a high interior plateau framed by mountain ranges and long Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Its Balearic and Canary islands introduce separate island geographies to the atlas.

Capital
Madrid
Languages
Spanish
Major cities
Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia

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 829 records for Spain. 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

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

215 lack an owner/operator; 389 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
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Browse 829 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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