Power plant · Upper Austria, Austria
Braunau-Simbach power station
Braunau-Simbach power station is a hydroelectric power plant in Upper Austria, Austria, with 100 MW of capacity, owned by Österreichisch-Bayerische Kraftwerke.
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 | Upper Austria | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 1951 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | Österreichisch-Bayerische Kraftwerke | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Grenzkraftwerke | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 100 MW | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Run-of-river hydro | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 48.2450, 13.0067 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow it compares
Braunau-Simbach power station is the 8th-largest of 22 power plants in Upper Austria and the 67th-largest of 128 in Austria by capacity; its 100 MW is 0.43% of the 23,421 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Austria | 8th of 22 | 1,960 MW | 5.1% |
| Austria | 67th of 128 | 23,421 MW | 0.43% |
| All power plants in our data | 2,552nd of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 79 substations, 3 CO2 emitters (1,632,586 tCO2e) and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 kV substation (OSM way/115652849) | Substation | — | — | 0.2 km |
| Simbach substation | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Umspannwerk Simbach | Substation | — | — | 1.9 km |
| Mineralölverarbeitung Burghausen | CO2 emitter | 1,002,359 tCO2e | — | 14 km |
| Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Burghausen | CO2 emitter | 462,605 tCO2e | — | 15 km |
| T02 Kraftwerk | CO2 emitter | 167,622 tCO2e | — | 23 km |
| synaforce GmbH | Data center | — | — | 48 km |
Owner, operator and place
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Data on this page
- Bayernwerk Netz: allocation map of demand connection capacity (Zuteilungsverfahren). Bayernwerk Netz: allocation map of demand connection capacity (Zuteilungsverfahren), Restricted.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.