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JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)

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The JRC-PPDB-OPEN database is a first attempt towards a more detailed and coherent, albeit still incomplete, dataset of European power plants.

Contributors

Andrei Bocin; Ignacio Hidalgo Gonzalez; Konstantinos Kanellopoulos; Matteo De Felice

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.KYANAWG PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/9810feeb-f062-49cd-8e76-8d8cfd488a05

Keywords

databaseemissionsenergypower plants

Data access

JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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Access conditions
No limitations

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Publications

Publication
The Joint Research Centre Power Plant Database (JRC-PPDB)
Kanellopoulos, K., De Felice, M., Hidalgo Gonzalez, I., Bocin Dumitriu, A. and Uihlein, A., The Joint Research Centre Power Plant Database (JRC-PPDB), EUR 29806 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019, ISBN 978-92-76-08849-3 (online), doi:10.2760/5281 (online), JRC117303.
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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  • This report is a description of the JRC's open power plant database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), its structure and the information it contains. JRC-PPDB-OPEN is mainly based on information from ENTSO-E's lists of installed capacity in Europe, extended through information contained in other open datasets, as well as own analysis of historical hourly generation time series data.

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-data-energy-union (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
irregular

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Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Energy

dataset theme covering the domain of energy, characterised as the quantitative property necessary to perform work on or heat objects, and vital element of living organisms and the operation of human civilisation

Geographical name(s)
European Union
Issued date
2019-07-03
Created date
03 Jul 2019 08:38
Modified date
25 Jul 2019 10:04
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/9810feeb-f062-49cd-8e76-8d8cfd488a05
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