Power plant · Catalonia, Spain

Besos Power Plant

Besos Power Plant is a gas power plant in Catalonia, Spain, with 1,671 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
Name in the source	BESOS	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Catalonia	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	2002	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	1,671 MW (sum of operating units, BES5 TG1 276 MW; BES5 TG2 276 MW; BES5 TV 307 MW; BESOS 3 411.9 MW; BESOS 4 399.7 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	5 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural gas (registered as Fossil Gas)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WBES3-12345-0V	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WBES5-123456-T	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	18WBES4-12345-0L	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	41.4670, 2.2530	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Besos is the 2nd-largest of 40 power plants in Catalonia and the 4th-largest of 245 in Spain by capacity; its 1,671 MW is 1.9% of the 88,007 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
Catalonia	2nd of 40	12,345 MW	14%
Spain	4th of 245	88,007 MW	1.9%
All power plants in our data	188th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 2 CO2 emitters (1,081,394 tCO2e) and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
CCC - Besos	CO2 emitter	550,591 tCO2e	—	5.8 km
Central Térmica Ciclo Combinado Besós 5	CO2 emitter	530,803 tCO2e	—	6.5 km
Mare Nostrum 5	AI supercomputer	4,480 H100e	Operating	14 km

Place

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Data on this page

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European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
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