Power plant · Buskerud, Norway

Hønefoss kraftstasjon II Power Plant

Name: Hønefoss kraftstasjon II
Address: Buskerud, NO

Hønefoss kraftstasjon II Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Buskerud, Norway, with 26 MW of capacity, owned by Ringerikskraft Produksjon.

Facts

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Fact	Value	Source
Location	Buskerud	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1920	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Ringerikskraft Produksjon	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Ringerikskraft Produksjon	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	26 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	60.1700, 10.2542	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Hønefoss kraftstasjon II is the 21st-largest of 35 power plants in Buskerud and the 383rd-largest of 590 in Norway by capacity; its 26 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	21st of 35	2,004 MW	1.3%
Norway	383rd of 590	51,251 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	4,647th of 12,230	1,691,896 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 149 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
Glitre Nett AS 132 kV substation, Ringerike	Substation	—	—	1.7 km
Eikli-T substation	Substation	—	—	2.0 km
Glitre Nett AS 132 kV substation, Ringerike	Substation	—	—	2.0 km
NexGen Cloud Hyperstack AQ Compute Supercomputer	AI supercomputer	—	Operating	4.0 km
Stack Infrastructure OSLO1A	Data center	—	—	41 km
Bulk Data Centers Oslo Internet Exchange	Data center	—	—	41 km

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Data on this page

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