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Global Power Plant Database
Open database of power plants worldwide (~30,000 plants, 164 countries), including each plant’s location, capacity, fuel type, and operational status
Dataset summary
- Provider
- World Resource Institute
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Temporal coverage
- Not documented
- Spatial resolution
- Point
- Temporal resolution
- Static
- Formats
- GeoJSON
- Climate variable tags
- Not documented
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina, Amazon Basin, East Africa, Southeast Asia
Variables and notes
- Open database of power plants worldwide (~30,000 plants, 164 countries), including each plant’s location, capacity, fuel type, and operational status
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.