Power plant · Austria

Kraftwerk Riedersbach 2

Name: Kraftwerk Riedersbach 2
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Kraftwerk Riedersbach 2 is a coal power plant in Austria, with 150 MW of capacity.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Austria	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1970	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	150 MW	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal (registered as Fossil Hard coal)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
EIC code	14WENERGIEAGWR05	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	48.0330, 12.8330	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Kraftwerk Riedersbach 2 is the 54th-largest of 123 power plants in Austria by capacity; its 150 MW is 0.67% of the 22,272 MW we hold for Austria. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
Austria	54th of 123	22,272 MW	0.67%
All power plants in our data	1,831st of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 75 substations and 4 CO2 emitters (1,920,939 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Umspannwerk Pirach	Substation	—	—	14 km
Umspannwerk Pirach	Substation	—	—	14 km
Pirach substation	Substation	—	—	14 km
Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Burghausen	CO2 emitter	462,605 tCO2e	—	16 km
Mineralölverarbeitung Burghausen	CO2 emitter	1,002,359 tCO2e	—	18 km
T02 Kraftwerk	CO2 emitter	167,622 tCO2e	—	18 km

Place

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Data on this page

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