Power plant · Upper Austria, Austria

Marchtrenk power plant

Marchtrenk power plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Upper Austria, Austria, with 42.8 MW of capacity, owned by Energie AG Oberösterreich.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Upper Austria	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1980	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Energie AG Oberösterreich	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Energie AG Oberösterreich	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	42.8 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	48.1725, 14.0997	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Marchtrenk power plant is the 14th-largest of 22 power plants in Upper Austria and the 94th-largest of 128 in Austria by capacity; its 42.8 MW is 0.18% 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	14th of 22	1,960 MW	2.2%
Austria	94th of 128	23,421 MW	0.18%
All power plants in our data	4,325th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 7 CO2 emitters (11,026,377 tCO2e) and 1 substation, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 4, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
voestalpine Stahl GmbH - Kalkwerk Steyrling	CO2 emitter	321,951 tCO2e	—	20 km
Voestalpine Stahl Linz	CO2 emitter	8,866,634 tCO2e	—	20 km
LAT Nitrogen Linz Ammoniakanlage	CO2 emitter	904,680 tCO2e	—	21 km
Umspannwerk Jochenstein	Substation	—	—	48 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Upper Austria

Aschach power station324 MW
Wallsee-Mitterkirchen power station210 MW
Ottensheim-Wilhering power station179 MW
Abwinden-Asten power station168 MW
Laufkraftwerk Ternberg168 MW
Jochenstein power station132 MW
Fernheizkraftwerk Linz-Mitte114 MW
Braunau-Simbach power station100 MW

All 23 power plants in Upper Austria, Austria

Data on this page

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