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Recorded hydropower plants in Europe
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The figure shows the number of existing, under construction and planned hydropower plants by size categories (installed megaWatts) in Europe.
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- Europe-wide inventory of hydropower plants (copyright-protected)
- EU-Hydro – River Network Database, Version 1.3
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
2015-2019
Methodology
The methodology is described in FLUVIUS, WWF, RiverWatch, EuroNatur, GEOTA, 2019, Hydropower pressure in Europe - the story in numbers. Available at https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/hydropower_pressure_on_european_rivers_the_story_in_numbers_web.pdf