The following page lists power stations in Switzerland. For traction current see List of installations for 15 kV AC railway electrification in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
There are 556 hydroelectric power plants in Switzerland that have a capacity of at least 300 kW. Some of these are listed below:[1]
Name | Capacity (MWe) | Location | Geographic coordinates | Type | Operational | Notes |
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Beznau Nuclear Power Plant, reactor I | 365 | Döttingen | 47°33′09″N 8°13′43″E / 47.5524656°N 8.2285935°E | PWR | 1969- | |
Beznau II | 365 | Döttingen | 47°33′06″N 8°13′42″E / 47.5517343°N 8.2282394°E | PWR | 1971- | |
Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant | 355 | Muehleberg | 46°58′08″N 7°16′05″E / 46.9688616°N 7.2680515°E | BWR | 1972-2019 | |
Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant | 970 | Däniken | 47°21′58″N 7°58′00″E / 47.3659747°N 7.9666758°E | PWR | 1979- | |
Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant | 1165 | Leibstadt | 47°36′06″N 8°10′57″E / 47.6016925°N 8.1826043°E | BWR | 1984- |
Name | Capacity (MW) | Location | Geographic coordinates | Type and fuel | Operational |
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Monthey | 55 | Monthey | - | combined cycle[10] | 2009 |
Tridel | 17 | Lausanne | - | waste[11] | - |
Giubiasco | 16 | Giubiasco | - | waste | - |
A gas turbine testing facility in Birr AG, belonging to Ansaldo Energia, sometimes feeds up to 740 megawatts into the Swiss electricity grid.[12]