Power plant · Basque Country, Spain

Ambieta Power Plant

Ambieta Power Plant is a gas power plant in Basque Country, Spain, with 786 MW of capacity.

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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	AMBIETA	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Basque Country	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Start year	2005	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Operator	Available on request	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe) · Restricted · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	786 MW (sum of operating units, AMBITG1 252.4 MW; AMBITG2 252.4 MW; AMBITV 281.6 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Units	3 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural gas (registered as Fossil Gas)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WAMBIETA-12-0S	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	43.2530, -2.7340	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Ambieta; 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
AMBIETA	asset:eic:18WAMBIETA-12-0S	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
AMOREBIETA	asset:opsd:18WAMBIETA-12-0S	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe)	Same ENTSO-E EIC code

How it compares

Ambieta is the 2nd-largest of 4 power plants in Basque Country and the 40th-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 786 MW is 0.98% 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
Basque Country	2nd of 4	3,303 MW	24%
Spain	40th of 226	80,401 MW	0.98%
All power plants in our data	653rd of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Place

Other power plants in Basque Country

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Data on this page

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