Power plant · Schmiechen, Bavaria, Germany

Unterbergen

Unterbergen is a power plant in Schmiechen, Bavaria, Germany, with 12.2 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	Schmiechen	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Lechfeldstraße, 86511 Schmiechen	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	1983	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	12.2 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	LEW Verteilnetz GmbH	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	48.2377, 10.9259	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Unterbergen is the 377th-largest of 481 power plants in Bavaria and the 3,253rd-largest of 4,012 in Germany by capacity; its 12.2 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	377th of 481	20,044 MW	<0.1%
Germany	3,253rd of 4,012	193,669 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	6,122nd of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 132 substations and 6 data centers, 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 Unterbergen	Substation	—	—	0.1 km
Umspannwerk Merching	Substation	—	—	3.3 km
Umspannwerk Prittriching	Substation	—	—	3.3 km
ZEBRA	Data center	—	—	11 km
Data center, Bavaria (OSM node 10853783649)	Data center	—	—	13 km
Siemens EAGLE Data Center	Data center	—	—	48 km

Operator, grid operator and place

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Data on this page

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.
OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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.