Power plant · Extremadura, Spain

Valdecañas Dam

Valdecañas Dam is a pumped storage power plant in Extremadura, Spain, with 247 MW of capacity, operated by Iberdrola.

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	VCN	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Extremadura	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
Start year	1977	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Operator	Iberdrola	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	247 MW (sum of operating units, VCN1 82.7 MW; VCN2 82.3 MW; VCN3 82 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	249 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	3 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Reservoir hydro (registered as Hydro Water Reservoir)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Technology	Pumped hydro storage	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	39.7780, -5.6130	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

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2 sources record Valdecañas Dam; 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
VCN	asset:eic:18WVCN1-12345-AZ	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Valdecañas Dam	asset:wikidata:Q106171110	Wikidata	Same coordinates, capacity and technology

How it compares

Valdecañas Dam is the 5th-largest of 22 power plants in Extremadura and the 95th-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 247 MW is 0.31% 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
Extremadura	5th of 22	5,912 MW	4.2%
Spain	95th of 226	80,401 MW	0.31%
All power plants in our data	1,536th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Operator and place

Other power plants in Extremadura

Almaraz2,017 MW
Alcántara dam957 MW
JM.Oriol953 MW
Cedillo495 MW
Solabe200 MW
Torrejón hydro power plant132 MW
TOJ130 MW
GGALAN GEN110 MW

All 22 power plants in Extremadura, Spain

Data on this page

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
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