Power plant · Andalusia, Spain

Barrios Power Plant

Barrios Power Plant is a coal power plant in Andalusia, Spain, with 570 MW of capacity, owned by Viesgo.

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
Name in the source	BARRIOS	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Andalusia	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1985	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Owner	Viesgo	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Viesgo	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	570 MW	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal (registered as Fossil Hard coal)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WBRR1-12345-0H	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	36.1840, -5.4180	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

3 sources record Barrios; 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
BARRIOS	asset:eic:18WBRR1-12345-0H	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Los Barrios power plant	asset:wikidata:Q5760908	Wikidata	Same coordinates, capacity and technology
LOS BARRIOS	asset:opsd:18WBRR1-12345-0H	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe)	Same ENTSO-E EIC code

How it compares

Barrios is the 9th-largest of 30 power plants in Andalusia and the 52nd-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 570 MW is 0.71% of the 80,401 MW we hold for Spain. 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
Andalusia	9th of 30	11,804 MW	4.8%
Spain	52nd of 226	80,401 MW	0.71%
All power plants in our data	973rd of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

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Data on this page

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