Power plant · Sweden

Hojum Power Plant

Name: Hojum
Address: SE

Hojum Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in Sweden, with 172 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	Sweden	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Västra Götaland County	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating (commissioned)	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1941	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	172 MW	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	184 MW	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · 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
Technology	Hydro	Wikidata · record · CC0 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
EIC code	46WPU0000000054M	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	58.2740, 12.2720	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Hojum; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Hojum	asset:eic:46WPU0000000054M	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Hojum Hydroelectric Power Station	asset:wikidata:Q3565673	Wikidata	Same name, coordinates and capacity

How it compares

Hojum is the 36th-largest of 155 power plants in Sweden by capacity; its 172 MW is 0.65% of the 26,284 MW we hold for Sweden. 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
Sweden	36th of 155	26,284 MW	0.65%
All power plants in our data	1,990th of 15,799	1,918,113 MW	<0.1%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 1 CO2 emitter (585,134 tCO2e), measured from the coordinates in the facts above.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Krackeranläggningen	CO2 emitter	585,134 tCO2e	—	34 km

Place

Other power plants in Sweden

Forsmark3,271 MW
Ringhals2,193 MW
Oskarshamn1,400 MW
Harsprånget830 MW
Karlshamn670 MW
Stornorrfors579 MW
Stenungsund520 MW
Messaure452 MW

All 156 power plants in Sweden

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.
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.