Power plant · Finnmark, Norway
Melkøya gasskraftverk Power Plant
Melkøya gasskraftverk Power Plant is a power plant in Finnmark, Norway, with 229 MW of capacity, owned by Equinor ASA.
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 | Finnmark | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | Equinor ASA | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Equinor ASA | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 229 MW | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 70.6838, 23.5920 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
Research on this power plant and its owner.Who owns it up to the parent company, its grid connection and planning status, and an introduction to the owner.
Request researchHow it compares
Melkøya gasskraftverk is the largest of 11 power plants in Finnmark and the 47th-largest of 612 in Norway by capacity; its 229 MW is 0.43% of the 52,659 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finnmark | 1st of 11 | 722 MW | 32% |
| Norway | 47th of 612 | 52,659 MW | 0.43% |
| All power plants in our data | 1,794th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 11 substations and 1 mine, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 4, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equinor ASA substation, Hammerfest | Substation | — | — | 0.0 km |
| Equinor ASA substation, Hammerfest | Substation | — | — | 0.8 km |
| HYGGEVATN substation | Substation | — | — | 4.9 km |
| Nussir | Mine | — | — | 31 km |
Owner, operator and place
More from Equinor ASA
- Dogger Bank A & B (was Creyke Beck A & B)2,400 MW · under construction
- Dogger Bank C (was Teesside A)1,200 MW · under construction
- Dudgeon Extension Project402 MW · permitted
- Dudgeon East402 MW
- Sheringham and Dudgeon Extension Projects317 MW · permitted
- Sheringham Shoal317 MW
- Sheringham Extension Project317 MW · permitted
- Hywind Tampen Wind Farm88 MW
Other power plants in Finnmark
- Alta power station153 MW
- Skogfoss power station60 MW
- Hamnefjell Wind Farm51.8 MW
- Adamselv power station50 MW
- Raggovidda Wind Farm45 MW
- Havøygavlen Wind Farm40.8 MW
- Kjøllefjord Wind Farm39.1 MW
- Melkefoss power station26 MW
Data on this page
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
- © European Union, European Commission (DG GROW). EU CRMA strategic projects, CC BY 4.0.
- JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
- Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
- Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
- NVE grid facilities: transformer stations (Nettanlegg). NVE grid facilities: transformer stations (Nettanlegg), Norsk lisens for offentlige data.
- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.
- Wikidata. Wikidata, CC0 1.0.