Power plant · Occitania, France

Pouget Power Plant

Name: Pouget
Address: Occitania, FR

Pouget Power Plant is a pumped storage power plant in Occitania, France, with 286 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
Name in the source	POUGET	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	Occitania	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 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 25 Oct 2026
Start year	1951	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Operator	Électricité de France	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	286 MW	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Capacity	447 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 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
EIC code	17W100P100P0290A	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	44.0600, 2.7690	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 Pouget; 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
POUGET	asset:eic:17W100P100P0290A	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Le Pouget	asset:wikidata:Q6507506	Wikidata	Same name and coordinates

How it compares

Pouget is the 3rd-largest of 10 power plants in Occitania and the 56th-largest of 211 in France by capacity; its 286 MW is 0.29% of the 98,321 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
Occitania	3rd of 10	4,969 MW	5.8%
France	56th of 211	98,321 MW	0.29%
All power plants in our data	1,473rd of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Operator and place

Other power plants in Occitania

Golfech2,620 MW
Aramon1,370 MW
Montezic908 MW
Brommat240 MW
Vallabregues210 MW
Pragneres189 MW
Sarrans183 MW
Couesque119 MW

All 11 power plants in Occitania, France

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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