Power plant · Hohenwarte, Thuringia, Germany

PSW Hohenwarte 1 PSS A

PSW Hohenwarte 1 PSS A is a closed power plant in Hohenwarte, Thuringia, Germany, with 29.9 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	Hohenwarte	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Ortsstraße, 07338 Hohenwarte	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Closed	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1959	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
End year	2024	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	29.9 MW	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Storage capacity	14,645 MWh	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Pumped hydro storage	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	50.6100, 11.4900	Marktstammdatenregister · record · DL-DE-BY-2.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

PSW Hohenwarte 1 PSS A is the 23rd-largest of 110 power plants in Thuringia and the 1,136th-largest of 4,012 in Germany by capacity; its 29.9 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
Thuringia	23rd of 110	4,047 MW	0.74%
Germany	1,136th of 4,012	193,669 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	2,872nd of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1959Started operating
2024Retired

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 84 substations, 3 data centers and 1 CO2 emitter (194,268 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
110 kV substation (OSM way/162445554)	Substation	—	—	0.5 km
Hohenwarte II Schaltanlage	Substation	—	—	1.3 km
Stahlwerk Thüringen	Substation	—	—	6.2 km
HKW Jena	CO2 emitter	194,268 tCO2e	—	32 km
Universitätsrechenzentrum	Data center	—	—	36 km
Rechenzentrum Thüringer Netkom	Data center	—	—	39 km
noris network AG Rechenzentrum Hof	Data center	—	—	43 km

Place

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Data on this page

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Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
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