Power plant · Castile and León, Spain

Guardo Power Plant

Guardo Power Plant is a coal power plant in Castile and León, Spain, with 486 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	GUARDO	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Castile and León	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	1967	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	486 MW (sum of operating units, GUARDO 1 143.4 MW; GUARDO 2 342.4 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Units	2 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 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
EIC code	18WGUA1-12345-0T	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WGUA2-12345-0J	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	42.8280, -4.8420	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 Guardo; 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
GUARDO	asset:eic:18WGUA1-12345-0T	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
CT GUARDO	asset:opsd:18WGUA1-12345-0T	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe)	Same ENTSO-E EIC code

How it compares

Guardo is the 6th-largest of 22 power plants in Castile and León and the 57th-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 486 MW is 0.6% 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
Castile and León	6th of 22	7,465 MW	6.5%
Spain	57th of 226	80,401 MW	0.6%
All power plants in our data	1,115th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Place

Other power plants in Castile and León

All 26 power plants in Castile and León, Spain

Data on this page

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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
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