Power plant · Rogaland, Norway

Sønnå L power station

Name: Sønnå L power station
Address: Rogaland, NO

Sønnå L power station is a hydroelectric power plant in Rogaland, Norway, with 62.5 MW of capacity, owned by Saudefaldene.

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
Start year	2008	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Saudefaldene	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Saudefaldene	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	62.5 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	59.6433, 6.3669	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How it compares

Sønnå L power station is the 17th-largest of 32 power plants in Rogaland and the 217th-largest of 612 in Norway by capacity; its 62.5 MW is 0.12% 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	17th of 32	5,224 MW	1.2%
Norway	217th of 612	52,659 MW	0.12%
All power plants in our data	3,217th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 44 substations and 1 CO2 emitter (253,516 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 4, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Aktieselskabet Saudefaldene 66 kV substation, Sauda	Substation	—	—	0.6 km
Fagne AS 66 kV substation, Sauda	Substation	—	—	0.6 km
Aktieselskabet Saudefaldene 300 kV substation, Sauda	Substation	—	—	0.7 km
Hydro Aluminium AS Husnes Aluminiumsverk	CO2 emitter	253,516 tCO2e	—	42 km

Owner, operator and place

Other power plants in Rogaland

Ulla-Førre2,057 MW
Kårstø Power Station420 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

All 32 power plants in Rogaland, Norway

Data on this page

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