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Jänschwalde Power Station

Peitz, Germany

The 187th largest power station in the world

3 GW · Capacity

Jänschwalde Power Station is located near the village of Jänschwalde in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border. The lignite-fired power station has an installed capacity of 3,000 megawatts and consists of six 500 MW units. It is the third-largest brown coal power plant in operation in Germany and is currently owned by LEAG/EPH, who took over its ownership from Vattenfall in 2016.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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