This page lists most of the power stations in the electricity sector in Germany. For traction current, see List of installations for 15 kV AC railway electrification in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Coal, gas, oil, waste As of July 2023, Germany still had 58 active coal power plants.Statistia

NameLocation Coordinates Capacity (MW) Height of chimneys m / ft Year Fuel Remarks Ahrensfelde Power Plant Ahrensfelde 152 1990 - 2020 Natural gas Altchemnitz Heating Power Station Altchemnitz, Saxony 232 1972 Oil (until 1981), natural gas Altbach Power Station Altbach, Baden-Württemberg 1270 Coal Asdonkshof Waste Incineration Plant Kamp-Lintfort, North Rhine-Westphalia 22 (98) 1995 Waste Baunatal Heating Power Plant Kassel-Baunatal 42 Bayer-Power Station Leverkusen Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia used until 1944 as carrier for Bayer Cross Leverkusen Bergkamen Power Station Bergkamen, North Rhine-Westphalia 747 1981 Coal Berlin-Buch Power Plant Berlin 5 1974 Berlin-Charlottenburg Heating Power Plant Berlin-Charlottenburg 215 Berlin-Köpenick Power Plant Berlin 10 Gas Berlin-Lichterfelde Power Plant Berlin 300 1974 Gas Berlin-Moabit Heating Power Plant Berlin-Moabit 150 Berlin-Mitte Heating Power Plant Berlin-Mitte 440 Berlin-Reuter/West Power Plant Berlin-Charlottenburg 600 Coal Reuter West Power Plant Berlin-Reutter Berlin-Charlottenburg 165 1930 Waste Berlin-Wilmersdorf Heating Power Plant Berlin-Mitte 330 Berlin-Klingenberg Power Plant Berlin 188 Berlin-Lichtenberg Power Plant Berlin 36 Berrenrath Industrial Power Plant Berrenrath 107 Bexbach Power Station Bexbach, Saarland 773 Coal Bochum Heating Power Plant Bochum 21 Boxberg Power Station Boxberg, Saxony 2575 Coal (lignite) Braunschweig-Mitte Heating Power Plant Braunschweig, Lower Saxony 319 1983 Bremen-Farge Power Plant Bremen 343 Bremen-Findorff Waste Incineration Plant Bremen 15.3 Unit 6 of Bremen-Hafen Power Station Bremen 450 Coal Bremen-Hastedt Power Plant Bremen 280 Bremen-Mittelsbüren Power Plant Bremen 280 also traction current Bridge of Nossen Heating Power Plant Dresden 270 Buschhaus Power Station Helmstedt, Lower Saxony 380 1984 Coal (lignite) Castrop-Rauxel Power Station Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia 290 Coal Power Plant Chemnitz Chemnitz 195 Coal (lignite), gas, oil Cuno Power Station Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia Dormagen Power Plant Dormagen 410 Dortmund-Derne Power Station Dortmund-Derne, North Rhine-Westphalia Coal Dresden-Reick Heating Power Station Dresden-Reick, Saxony Datteln Power Station Datteln 1100 Coal also traction current Emden-Biomass Power Plant Emden 20 Emden Power Plant Emden 450 Emsland Natural Gas Power Plant Lingen 864 Natural gas Ensdorf Power Plant Ensdorf 430 Erfurt-Ost Heating Power Station Erfurt, Thuringia 51 00 55 N 011 02 23 E demolished Essen-Karnap Incineration Plant Essen-Karnap, North Rhine-Westphalia Waste Franken I Power Plant Nuremberg 843 Franken II Power Station Erlangen, Bavaria 1963/64 demolished in 2001 Flensburg Heating Power Plant Flensburg 170 Frankfurt Traction Current Power Plant Frankfurt 12 1966 only traction current Freimann Heating Power Plant Munich 160 Natural gas Frimmersdorf Power Station Frimmersdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia 623 Coal (lignite) CO2 output (2017) = 3.58 million tonnes Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Schweinfurt Schweinfurt 126 Coal, waste Gera-Nord Heating Power Station (3 Essen) Gera, Thuringia Gersteinwerk Werne, North Rhine-Westphalia 2127 1984 Coal Goldenberg Power Plant Hürth 171 Grosskrotzenburg Power Station Großkrotzenburg, Hessen 1132 Coal GuD-Heating Station Knapsack Hürth 800 Gustav Knepper Power Station Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia 350 Coal demolished by explosives on February 17, 2019 Hagenwerder Power Plant, Unit III Görlitz/Hagenwerder, Saxony 1972/73 Coal demolished by explosives on June 19, 1998 Hamm-Schmehausen Power Station Hamm-Schmehausen, North Rhine-Westphalia 850 Natural gas Hannover-Herrenhausen Power Plant Hannover 105 Hannover-Kronsberg Heating Power Plant Hannover-Kronsberg 1.17 Hannover-Linden Power Plant Hannover 100 Hannover-Stöcken Power Plant Hannover 230 Herne Power Station Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia 950 1989 Coal Heilbronn Power Station Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg 1130 Coal Hermann Wenzel Power Plant Duisburg Heyden Power Station Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia 920 Coal Huckingen Power Plant Duisburg-Huckingen 600 Ibbenbüren Power Station Ibbenbüren, North Rhine-Westphalia 770 1985 Anthracite Ingolstadt Waste Incineration Plant Ingolstadt Ingolstadt Power Station Ingolstadt, Bavaria 840 Oil Irsching Power Station Irsching, Bavaria ; 1869 Natural gas, oil Power Plant Jänschwalde Jänschwalde 3000 1981 Coal (lignite) Jena Heating Power Station Jena, Thuringia 225 Natural gas Karlsruhe-West Heating Power Plant Karlsruhe 33 Karlsruhe RDK 7 and 8 Karlsruhe 1827 Bituminous coal Kassel Power Plant Kassel 34 Kempten Waste Power Plant Kempten Kiel Power Plant Kiel 354 Kirchmöser Power Station Brandenburg 160 traction current Kirchlengern Power Plant Kirchlengern 182 Siegenbeckstraße, Hamm-Uentrop 305 Coal Lauchhammer-South Heating Plant Lauchhammer, Saxony demolished in 2002 Lausward Power Plant Düsseldorf 520 also traction current Leuna Power Station Leuna 158 Lingen Reffinery Power Plant Lingen 68 Lippendorf Power Station Lippendorf, Saxony 1967 Coal (lignite) demolished in 2005 Lippendorf Power Station Lippendorf, Saxony 1867 1999/2000 Coal (lignite) Two new plants commissioned 1999 / 2000 Lünen Power Station Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia 500 Coal 110 MW traction current Lünen Trianel Coal Power Plant Lünen, North Rhine-Westphalia 750 2013 Coal Trianel Coal Power Plant, Lünen Magdeburg Waste Power Plant Magdeburg 150 Mannheim-Neckarau Power Station Mannheim-Neckarau, Baden-Württemberg 2146 Coal 310 MW traction current Marbach Power Plant Marbach Marl-Chemiepark Power Station Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia Coal demolished Marl-Chemiepark Power Station Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia Mehrum Power Station Hohenhameln, Lower Saxony 690 Coal Merkenich Heating Power Station Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 195 Natural gas, coal (lignite) Moers-Meerbeck Power Station Moers-Meerbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia Coal Moorburg Power Plant Hamburg 1730 2015 Coal Munich-North Heating Power Plant Munich 360 Coal Munich-South Heating Power Plant Munich 698 Natural gas, oil Neurath Power Station Grevenbroich 4300 Coal (lignite) (3 × 312 MW, 636 + 636) and 2 × 1100 MW CO2 output (2017) = 29.90 million tonnes"RWE’s Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain", Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (link) Niederaussem Power Station Niederaussem 3864 Coal (lignite) CO2 output (2017) = 27.17 million tonnes Offleben Power Station Offleben, Lower Saxony Coal (lignite) Pleinting Power Plant Pleinting 725 1968 - 2008 Light oil Rostock Power Station Rostock 600 Coal Rüstersieler Power Station Rüstersieler, Lower Saxony 747 Coal Römerbrücke Heating Power Plant Saarbrücken 110 Robert Frank Power Plant Landesbergen 500 Shamrock Power Plant Herne 132 Sindelfingen Heating Power Plant Sindelfingen Schkopau Power Station Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt 916 Coal (lignite) 110 MW traction current Schwedt Power Station Schwedt, Brandenburg Power Plant Scholven Gelsenkirchen 760 Coal Scholven A Power Station Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia Schwandorf Power Station Schwandorf, Bavaria Coal (lignite) demolished Schilling Power Station Stade, Lower Saxony 1962 Oil demolished Schwarze Pumpe power station Spremberg 1600 Coal (lignite) Stuttgart-Gaisburg Power Plant Stuttgart 60 Stuttgart-Münster Power Plant Stuttgart 164 Thierbach Power Station Espenhain, Saxony Coal (lignite) demolished Thyrow Gas Turbine Power Plant Thyrow 300 Tiefstack Power Station Hamburg 321 Coal and gas Veltheim Power Plant Veltheim 880 Coal Völklingen-Fenne Power Plant Völklingen 600 Steag Völklingen complex Voerde Power Plant Voerde, North Rhine-Westphalia 2234 Coal (lignite) Steag pdf page Walheim Power Plant Walheim 253 Coal Walsum Power Station Walsum, North Rhine-Westphalia 410 1988 Coal Werdohl-Elverlingsen Power Station Werdohl, North Rhine-Westphalia 637 Coal Wedel CHP Plant Wedel 260 Coal Wedel CHP Plant Weiher-3 CHP Plant Quierschied-Weiher, Saarland 680 Coal Weiher PP Weisweiler Power Plant Eschweiler 2457 Primary: coal (lignite), secondary: natural gas Weisweiler PP Westfalen Hamm Power PlantOther name: Trianel GuD-Power Plant Hamm-Uentrop Uentrop-Schmehausen, North Rhine-Westphalia 850 2007 Natural gas Westfalen Hamm PP Wilhelmshaven Power Station (E.ON) Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony 747 1976 Coal Wolfsburg Heating Power Plant Wolfsburg 140 Wolfsburg-West Heating Power Plant Wolfsburg 300 Weissenhorn Waste Incineration Plant Weissenhorn West Heating Power Plant Frankfurt 244 Westerholt Power Station Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia 1997 Coal demolished in 2006 Wuppertal-Barmen Heating Power Plant Wuppertal 56 Wuppertal-Elberfeld Heating Power Plant Wuppertal 100 Zolling CHP plant Zolling, Bavaria 449 Coal, biomass

Hydroelectric Station Town Geographical coordinates Capacity (MW) Bad Abbach Power Station Bad Abbach 3.5 MW (traction current) Aufkirchen Power Station Aufkirchen 40 (13 MW traction current) Bad Säckingen Power Station Bad Säckingen 73.6 Bergheim Power Station Bad Säckingen 23.7 (only traction current) Bertoldsheim Power Station Rennertshofen 18.9 (only traction current) Bettenberg Power Station Nagold 0.2 Bittenbrunn Power Station Bittenbrunn 20.2 (only traction current) Dettingen Power Station Dettingen 11 Eitting Power Station Eitting ? (only traction current) Fankel Power Station Fankel 16.4 Forggensee Dam Rosshaupten 45.5 Iffezheim Power Station Iffezheim 104 Ingolstadt Hydroelectric Power Station Ingolstadt 19.8 (only traction current) Kachlet Power Station Passau 52 Koblenz Power Station Koblenz 16 Laufenburg Power Station Laufenburg 106 Möhne Dam Günne 7.04 Mühlhausen Power Station Mühlacker 1.68 Pfrombach Power Station Pfrombach ? (also traction current) Rheinfelden Power Station Rheinfelden 25.7 Ryburg-Schwörstadt Power Station Schwörstadt 120 Schärding-Neuhaus Power Station Neuhaus am Inn 96 Serrig Power Station Serrig 12.1 Söse Dam Osterode am Harz 1.44 Sylvenstein Dam Langleger 7 Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station Kochel am See 124 (52 MW traction current) Wendefurth Power Station Wendefurth 80 Wyhlen Dam Grenzach-Wyhlen 38.5

Pumped-storage hydroelectric