Power plant · Grand Est, France

Cattenom Power Plant

Name: Cattenom
Address: Grand Est, FR

Cattenom Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Grand Est, France, with 5,200 MW of capacity, operated by Électricité de France.

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
Location	Grand Est	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	France	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · 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	1978	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1979	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Électricité de France	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	5,200 MW (sum of operating units, CATTENOM 1 1300 MW; CATTENOM 2 1300 MW; CATTENOM 3 1300 MW; CATTENOM 4 1300 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	5,200 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	4 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Nuclear	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	17W100P100P01881	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	17W100B100P0189S	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	17W100P100P01873	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	17W100P100P0190E	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	49.4160, 6.2170	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

3 sources record Cattenom; 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
Cattenom	asset:eic:17W100B100P0189S	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant	asset:wikidata:Q1371612	Wikidata	Same name, coordinates and capacity
Cattenom	asset:opsd:17W100B100P0189S	Open Power System Data: conventional power plants (Europe)	Same ENTSO-E EIC code

How it compares

Cattenom is the largest of 17 power plants in Grand Est and the 3rd-largest of 222 in France by capacity; its 5,200 MW is 4.8% of the 107,469 MW we hold for France. 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
Grand Est	1st of 17	17,364 MW	30%
France	3rd of 222	107,469 MW	4.8%
All power plants in our data	4th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	0.27%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1978Started operating
1979Started operating

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 31 substations, 7 CO2 emitters (6,038,163 tCO2e) and 2 data centers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
UA Borg	Substation	—	—	17 km
UA Merzig	Substation	—	—	30 km
Station Saarburg	Substation	—	—	31 km
Einheitliche Anlage Stahlwerk Dillinger Hütte	CO2 emitter	349,711 tCO2e	—	38 km
Gichtgaskraftwerk Dillingen/Saar	CO2 emitter	894,648 tCO2e	—	38 km
Grobblechwalzwerk 2 der DH	CO2 emitter	249,011 tCO2e	—	38 km
Inexio	Data center	—	—	40 km
Rechenzentrum KÜS Data	Data center	—	—	44 km

Operator and place

Other power plants in Grand Est

Chooz3,000 MW
Nogent2,620 MW
Fessenheim1,760 MW
Emile Huchet1,421 MW
Revin808 MW
Maxe485 MW
Blenod 5427 MW
Croix-de-Metz413 MW

All 17 power plants in Grand Est, France

Data on this page

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