Power plant · Saxony, Germany

Boxberg

Boxberg is a power plant in Saxony, Germany, with 2,470 MW of capacity, operated by Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG.

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	Saxony	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	1979	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	2,470 MW	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	4 units	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Lignite	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Grid operator	50Hertz Transmission GmbH	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

4 records describe Boxberg; 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
Boxberg	asset:mastr:SEE907389779292	Marktstammdatenregister	—
Boxberg Block P	asset:mastr:SEE908125004449	Marktstammdatenregister	Same location number
Boxberg Block R	asset:mastr:SEE968582186379	Marktstammdatenregister	Same location number
Boxberg Block N	asset:mastr:SEE985842749525	Marktstammdatenregister	Same location number

How it compares

Boxberg is the largest of 132 power plants in Saxony and the largest of 4,012 in Germany by capacity; its 2,470 MW is 1.3% 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
Saxony	1st of 132	9,450 MW	26%
Germany	1st of 4,012	193,669 MW	1.3%
All power plants in our data	31st of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	0.21%

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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.
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.