Power plant · Essenbach, Bavaria, Germany

Altheim

Altheim is a power plant in Essenbach, Bavaria, Germany, with 17.2 MW of capacity, operated by Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH.

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	Essenbach	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Kraftwerkstraße 22, 84051 Essenbach	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1951	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	17.2 MW	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	3 units	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hydro	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	Bayernwerk Netz GmbH	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	48.5836, 12.2181	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Altheim is the 226th-largest of 481 power plants in Bavaria and the 2,203rd-largest of 4,012 in Germany by capacity; its 17.2 MW is <0.1% of the 193,669 MW we hold for Germany. 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
Bavaria	226th of 481	20,044 MW	<0.1%
Germany	2,203rd of 4,012	193,669 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	4,588th of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 85 substations and 4 CO2 emitters (1,562,857 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Umspannwerk Altheim	Substation	—	—	0.3 km
Umspannwerk Altheim	Substation	—	—	0.3 km
Umspannwerk Landshut	Substation	—	—	5.7 km
Fels KA NSO RSO Saal a.d. Donau	CO2 emitter	224,695 tCO2e	—	41 km
Standort Neustadt	CO2 emitter	679,888 tCO2e	—	41 km
Petrochemische Anlage	CO2 emitter	330,756 tCO2e	—	42 km

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Other power plants in Bavaria

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Franken823 MW
SWM HKW Sued619 MW
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Kraftwerk Zolling472 MW
Irsching 3415 MW

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Data on this page

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