Power plant · Norway

Hunsfos Power Plant

Name: Hunsfos
Address: NO

Hunsfos Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Norway, with 17.5 MW of capacity.

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	Norway	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	17.5 MW (sum of operating units, Hunsfos G11 Hydro 13 MW; Hunsfos G22 Hydro 4.5 MW)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Units	2 units	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · 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 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	50WP00000000297N	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	58.2640, 7.9690	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Hunsfos is the 489th-largest of 612 power plants in Norway by capacity; its 17.5 MW is <0.1% 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
Norway	489th of 612	52,659 MW	<0.1%
All power plants in our data	7,478th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 47 substations, 2 AI supercomputers and 1 data center (42 MW), 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 66 kV substation, Vennesla	Substation	—	—	0.4 km
Glitre Nett AS 110 kV substation, Vennesla	Substation	—	—	0.9 km
Glitre Nett AS 66 kV substation, Vennesla	Substation	—	—	1.2 km
CoreWeave Norway	Data center	42 MW	Operating	4.2 km
Northern Data Group Taiga Cloud NO1 Island 1	AI supercomputer	2,048 H100e	Operating	4.6 km
Northern Data Group Taiga Cloud NO1 Island 2	AI supercomputer	2,048 H100e	Operating	4.6 km

Place

Other power plants in Norway

Ulla-Førre2,057 MW
Kvilldal1,240 MW
Sima power station1,120 MW
Tonstad960 MW
Aurland power station840 MW
Svartisen720 MW
Sy-Sima720 MW
Saurdal640 MW

All 612 power plants in Norway

Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DUKES 5.11: Power stations in the United Kingdom, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI data centers, 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.