Power plant · Switzerland

KW Sarganserland AG

Name: KW Sarganserland AG
Address: CH

KW Sarganserland AG is a pumped storage power plant in Switzerland, with 330 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	Switzerland	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	1977	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	330 MW (sum of operating units, Mapragg - Gigerwald G1 110 MW; Mapragg - Gigerwald G2 110 MW; Mapragg - Gigerwald G3 110 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Units	3 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Pumped hydro storage (registered as Hydro Pumped Storage)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
EIC code	12W-0000000917-6	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	46.9480, 9.4810	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 KW Sarganserland AG; 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
KW Sarganserland AG	asset:eic:12W-0000000917-6	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Mapragg	asset:opsd:12W-0000000917-6	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe)	Same ENTSO-E EIC code

How it compares

KW Sarganserland AG is the 22nd-largest of 93 power plants in Switzerland by capacity; its 330 MW is 1.5% of the 21,579 MW we hold for Switzerland. 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
Switzerland	22nd of 93	21,579 MW	1.5%
All power plants in our data	1,390th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Place

Other power plants in Switzerland

Usine de Fionnay1,542 MW
KW Oberhasli AG (KWO)1,370 MW
Bieudron Hydroelectric Power Station1,269 MW
KernKW Leibstadt AG1,245 MW
KW Linth-Limmern AG1,141 MW
Kernkraftwerk Gösgen1,020 MW
Linth–Limmern Power Stations1,000 MW
Nant de Drance (NDD)914 MW

All 102 power plants in Switzerland

Data on this page

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