Global Power Plants (2021)

This layer contains over 34,000 power plant locations in hundreds of countries around the globe.

This layer contains over 34,000 power plant locations in hundreds of countries around the globe. Click on each power plant to view its:

• Name
• Fuel type: hydro, solar, wind, gas, coal, oil, biomass, waste, nuclear, cogeneration, geothermal, petcoke, storage, wave and tidal, or other
• Capacity (MW)
• Annual generation (GWh)
• Data source
• Link to more information

To view additional information such as the data source year, geolocation source, latitude, and longitude, click on the table icon underneath the layer name. This feature layer employs Clustering which groups point features within a certain distance of one another into one symbol. When you zoom in, the clusters start to break up and greater point details are displayed. To view the popup for individual power plants, click on the cluster and select Browse Features. The Firefly symbology used for this layer works best with darker basemaps like the Firefly basemap, Nova basemap, or the Human Geography Dark basemap, all found in the Living Atlas of the World. This layer was created by the World Resources Institute and last updated in 2021. The dataset is updated by the World Resources Institute every 4 to 6 months. For more information, please contact Aaron Kressig at [email protected].

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• World Resources Institute
• biomass
• capacity
• coal
• fuel
• fuel type
• gas
• generation
• gigawatts
• hydro
• nuclear
• oil
• ownership
• plenary
• power
• power plants
• solar
• waste
• wind

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (54%)
• Maturity Level 2 (69%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (38%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	July 28, 2026, 06:50 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 21:03 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Global Power Plants (2021)
Description A description of the dataset.	This layer contains over 34,000 power plant locations in hundreds of countries around the globe. This layer contains over 34,000 power plant locations in hundreds of countries around the globe. Click on each power plant to view its: Name Fuel type: hydro, solar, wind, gas, coal, oil, biomass, waste, nuclear, cogeneration, geothermal, petcoke, storage, wave and tidal, or other Capacity (MW) Annual generation (GWh) Data source Link to more information To view additional information such as the data source year, geolocation source, latitude, and longitude, click on the table icon underneath the layer name. This feature layer employs Clustering which groups point features within a certain distance of one another into one symbol. When you zoom in, the clusters start to break up and greater point details are displayed. To view the popup for individual power plants, click on the cluster and select Browse Features. The Firefly symbology used for this layer works best with darker basemaps like the Firefly basemap, Nova basemap, or the Human Geography Dark basemap, all found in the Living Atlas of the World. This layer was created by the World Resources Institute and last updated in 2021. The dataset is updated by the World Resources Institute every 4 to 6 months. For more information, please contact Aaron Kressig at [email protected].
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	World Resources Institute biomass capacity coal fuel fuel type gas generation gigawatts hydro nuclear oil ownership plenary power power plants solar waste wind
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	37408.0
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2023-08-10
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	This work is licensed under the Web Services and API Terms of Use. View Summary | View Terms of Use
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://climat.esri.ca/datasets/UrbanObservatory::global-power-plants-2021
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	JenniferBell_UO
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	Urban Observatory by Esri
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	Urban Observatory by Esri
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	JenniferBell_UO
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2023-08-11

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	59d19e76961342858cb859e8c896aeda
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://climat.esri.ca/datasets/UrbanObservatory::global-power-plants-2021
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	Urban Observatory by Esri
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.	34936
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.	37
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.	1292632
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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