Power plant · Buskerud, Norway

Askerudfoss power station

Name: Askerudfoss power station
Address: Buskerud, NO

Askerudfoss power station is a hydroelectric power plant in Buskerud, Norway, with 13.2 MW of capacity, owned by Viul Kraft AS.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Buskerud	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1946	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Viul Kraft AS	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Viul Kraft AS	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	13.2 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	60.2032, 10.3423	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Askerudfoss power station is the 30th-largest of 35 power plants in Buskerud and the 522nd-largest of 590 in Norway by capacity; its 13.2 MW is <0.1% of the 51,251 MW we hold for Norway. 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
Buskerud	30th of 35	2,004 MW	0.66%
Norway	522nd of 590	51,251 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	7,310th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 140 substations, 2 data centers and 1 AI supercomputer, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 6, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Aslaksrud-T substation	Substation	—	—	2.8 km
Glitre Nett AS 132 kV substation, Jevnaker	Substation	—	—	3.2 km
NexGen Cloud Hyperstack AQ Compute Supercomputer	AI supercomputer	—	Operating	5.9 km
Glitre Nett AS 132 kV substation, Ringerike	Substation	—	—	6.3 km
Bulk Data Centers Oslo Internet Exchange	Data center	—	—	40 km
Stack Infrastructure OSLO1A	Data center	—	—	40 km

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Data on this page

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