Power plant · Rogaland, Norway
Kårstø Power Station
Kårstø Power Station is a closed gas power plant in Rogaland, Norway, with 420 MW of capacity, owned by Naturkraft.
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 | Rogaland | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Status | Closed | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Start year | 2007 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| End year | 2016 | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Owner | Naturkraft | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Operator | Naturkraft | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Capacity | 420 MW | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Technology | Natural gas | Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Coordinates | 59.2756, 5.5111 | 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
Kårstø Power Station is the 2nd-largest of 32 power plants in Rogaland and the 13th-largest of 612 in Norway by capacity; its 420 MW is 0.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogaland | 2nd of 32 | 5,224 MW | 8% |
| Norway | 13th of 612 | 52,659 MW | 0.8% |
| All power plants in our data | 1,370th of 15,799 | 1,918,113 MW | <0.1% |
Timeline
Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.
- Started operating
- Retired
Nearby
Within 50 km of this power plant: 69 substations, 17 CO2 emitters (8,422,733 tCO2e) and 1 data center, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 7, up to 3 per kind.
| Name | Kind | Size | Status | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kårstø substation | Substation | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Equinor ASA substation, Tysvær | Substation | — | — | 0.4 km |
| Equinor ASA substation, Tysvær | Substation | — | — | 2.3 km |
| Hydro Aluminium AS Karmøy aluminiumsverk | CO2 emitter | 373,314 tCO2e | — | 12 km |
| Equinor ASA Hammerfest LNG | CO2 emitter | 658,144 tCO2e | — | 44 km |
| Equinor ASA Raffineri Mongstad | CO2 emitter | 1,485,426 tCO2e | — | 44 km |
| Maan Group | Data center | — | — | 46 km |
Owner, operator and place
Other power plants in Rogaland
- Ulla-Førre2,057 MW
- Lysebotn II power station370 MW
- Bjerkreim Southern Cluster Wind Farms301 MW
- Sønnå H power station212 MW
- Duge Power Station200 MW
- Suldal I power station185 MW
- Tellenes Wind Farm160 MW
- Suldal II power station155 MW
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.
- European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, 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.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors. OpenStreetMap data centers, ODbL 1.0.
- 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.