Power plant · Galicia, Spain

Jar Power Plant

Jar Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Galicia, Spain, with 53 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	JAR	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Galicia	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Spain	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	53 MW (sum of operating units, JAR1 25.9 MW; JAR2 27.1 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	51.2 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	2 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	Hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	42.3930, -7.0890	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 Jar; 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
JAR	asset:eic:18WJAR1-12345-AN	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Santiago-Jares hydro power plant	asset:wikidata:Q56371804	Wikidata	Same coordinates, capacity and technology

How it compares

Jar is the 19th-largest of 20 power plants in Galicia and the 170th-largest of 226 in Spain by capacity; its 53 MW is <0.1% 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
Galicia	19th of 20	5,677 MW	0.93%
Spain	170th of 226	80,401 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	3,028th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 1 CO2 emitter (340,020 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Votorantim Cementos España,SA-Instalación de León	CO2 emitter	340,020 tCO2e	—	31 km

Place

Other power plants in Galicia

All 21 power plants in Galicia, Spain

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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