Power plant · Asturias, Spain

Soto de Ribera Power Plant

Soto de Ribera Power Plant is a coal power plant in Asturias, Spain, with 1,200 MW of capacity, owned by EDP Energía.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Asturias	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1957	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	EDP Energía	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	EDP Energía	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,200 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural gas	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hard coal	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	43.3125, -5.8744	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Soto de Ribera Power Plant is the largest of 7 power plants in Asturias and the 14th-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 1,200 MW is 1.5% 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
Asturias	1st of 7	3,594 MW	33%
Spain	14th of 226	80,401 MW	1.5%
All power plants in our data	319th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 5 CO2 emitters (4,693,065 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 3.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Central Térmica Soto 3	CO2 emitter	383,727 tCO2e	—	0.3 km
Central Térmica de Ciclo Combinado Soto de Ribera	CO2 emitter	756,805 tCO2e	—	0.5 km
Fábrica de Cal de Tudela Veguín-Fábrica de Cales	CO2 emitter	465,826 tCO2e	—	8.4 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Asturias

Aboño878 MW
Sotoribe772 MW
Narcea502 MW
SOTO5428 MW
Lada Power Plant348 MW
Salto y central hidroeléctrica de Grandas de Salime128 MW
Tanes Pumped Storage Power Plant123 MW
Central hidroeléctrica de Miranda64.8 MW

All 9 power plants in Asturias, Spain

Data on this page

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