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Powerplants - ENTSO-E

  • Layer title: Power plants from the Joint Research Center (JRC) and the European Network of Transmission System

Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).

  • Layer name: powerplants.gpkg

  • Sub-layers: None

  • Description: Vector point dataset containing power plants.

  • Format: GeoPackage (gpkg)

  • Version: 1.4.0

  • Geographical extent (xmin,ymin : xmax:ymax): 6.0431478420375448,47.5282805650118476 : 28.7207604436040178,69.8628854913897470

  • Temporal extent: 27/10/2023 (time-instant)

  • CRS: ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe (epsg:3035)

  • Encoding: UTF-8

  • Scale/Denominator: Unknown, questioned the souce via email (info@entsoe.eu).

  • Topic category: Utilities communication

  • Keywords: infrastructure, electricity, plant

  • List of input datasets: None

  • Attributes:

    [name]

    Data type: String (50)

    Description: Name of the powerplant production unit.

    [capacity_p]

    Data type: Real

    Description: Production unit net capacity in MW.

    [capacity_g]

    Data type: Real

    Description: Generating unit net capacity in MW.

    [type]

    Data type: String (50)

    Description: Text describing the type of fuel used for the power production.

    [status]

    Data type: String (25)

    Description: Text describing the actvity status of the power plant.

    [year_commissioned]

    Data type: Integer

    Description: Year of commission/start of production in the power plant.

    [water]

    Data type: String (25)

    Description: Text describing the water type used for cooling or production.

    [cooling]

    Data type: String (50)

    Description: Text describing the cooling process/technique used.

    [withdrawal]

    Data type: Real

    Description: Water withdrawal, NB! Seems to have mixed units.

    [water_consumption]

    Data type: Real

    Description: Water consumption for electricity production measured in cubic meters per megawatt-hour (m³/MWh).

    [class]

    Data type: String (25)

    Description: Reclassification of the type field where the following classes where grouped together:

    1)Biomass and waste 2)all fossil fuels besides peat 3)hydro- power plants.

  • Date: Published on 13/12/2019, retrieved from JRC (https://zenodo.org/records/3574566) on 20/02/2024.

  • Quality/Lineage: Entire dataset has been clipped by HyTruck project extent and decommissioned power plants have been removed.

  • License: CC-BY-4.0.

  • Citation: Kanellopoulos K., De Felice M., Hidalgo Gonzalez I., & Bocin A. (2019). JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)

(1.00) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3574566

  • Additional information: NONE.