Power plant · Austria

Ybbs-Persenbeug Power Plant

Name: Ybbs-Persenbeug
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Ybbs-Persenbeug Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Austria, with 237 MW of capacity, owned by Verbund.

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
Location	Lower Austria	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1959	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1942	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Verbund	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Verbund	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	237 MW	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Run-of-river hydro (registered as Hydro Run-of-river and poundage)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Run-of-river hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	14W-BYP-KW-----6	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	48.1890, 15.0680	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Ybbs-Persenbeug; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Ybbs-Persenbeug	asset:eic:14W-BYP-KW-----6	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Ybbs-Persenbeug power station	asset:wikidata:Q1786238	Wikidata	Same name, coordinates, capacity and technology

How it compares

Ybbs-Persenbeug is the 34th-largest of 123 power plants in Austria by capacity; its 237 MW is 1.1% 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	34th of 123	22,272 MW	1.1%
All power plants in our data	1,559th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1942Started operating
1959Started operating

Owner, operator and place

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Data on this page

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.
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.
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.