Power plant · Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia

PPC Vřesová Power Plant

Name: PPC Vřesová
Address: Karlovy Vary Region, CZ

PPC Vřesová Power Plant is a gas power plant in Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia, with 400 MW of capacity, owned by Sokolovská uhelná, právní nástupce, a.s.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Karlovy Vary Region	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1996	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Sokolovská uhelná, právní nástupce, a.s.	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Sokolovská uhelná, právní nástupce, a.s.	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	400 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural gas	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.2576, 12.6929	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

PPC Vřesová is the largest of 3 power plants in Karlovy Vary Region and the 19th-largest of 57 in Czechia by capacity; its 400 MW is 1.9% of the 21,321 MW we hold for Czechia. 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
Karlovy Vary Region	1st of 3	649 MW	62%
Czechia	19th of 57	21,321 MW	1.9%
All power plants in our data	1,410th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 36 substations, 3 data centers and 1 CO2 emitter (634,044 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Elektrárna Tisová	CO2 emitter	634,044 tCO2e	—	13 km
110 kV substation (OSM way/149402624)	Substation	—	—	26 km
Umspannwerk Markneukirchen	Substation	—	—	27 km
Schönheide	Substation	—	—	31 km
Warenlager	Data center	—	—	35 km
Hetzner – Rechenzentrumspark Falkenstein	Data center	—	—	35 km
Data center, Saxony (OSM way 1084463415)	Data center	—	—	35 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Karlovy Vary Region

Tisová power station239 MW
větrný park Horní Paseky10 MW

All 3 power plants in Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia

Data on this page

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