WRI Global Power Plant Database — Capacity, Fuel, Coordinates, Owner And Generation For 34,000+ Plants Worldwide

DatasetCSV.GZOpenEnergyPower PlantsElectricityWriGeospatialInfrastructureFree

34,936 power plants in 167 countries and territories with GPPD identifier, capacity (MW), latitude and longitude, primary and secondary fuel, commissioning year, owner, data source, the year of the capacity figure, reported annual generation for 2013–2019 (GWh) where the source publishes it and WRI's modelled estimate of 2017 generation, from the World Resources Institute Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 as of 2026-09-06.

Use Cases

Energy-transition and stranded-asset analysis
Utility and IPP asset mapping
Grid and siting studies with coordinates
Country generation-mix baselines

Methodology

Direct parse of the published CSV keeping the identity, capacity, fuel, location, ownership and generation columns; numbers cast to numbers; fractional commissioning years are WRI's capacity-weighted averages across units; reported generation is blank for the roughly three quarters of plants whose national source does not publish it; sorted by country and plant name.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. WRI released v1.3.0 in June 2021 and has not updated the database since; refresh annually.

Attribution

Source: World Resources Institute, Global Power Plant Database v1.3.0 (github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database), CC BY 4.0.

Schema

name	type
country	string
country_long	string
name	string
gppd_idnr	string
capacity_mw	number
latitude	number
longitude	number
primary_fuel	string
other_fuel1	string
commissioning_year	number
owner	string
source	string
year_of_capacity_data	integer
generation_gwh_2013	number
generation_gwh_2014	number
generation_gwh_2015	number
generation_gwh_2016	number
generation_gwh_2017	number
generation_gwh_2018	number
generation_gwh_2019	string

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Sample Data

name	source	country	latitude	gppd_idnr	longitude	capacity_mw	country_long	primary_fuel	year_of_capacity_data	estimated_generation_gwh_2017
Kajaki Hydroelectric Power Plant Afghanistan	GEODB	AFG	32.322	GEODB0040538	65.119	33	Afghanistan	Hydro	2017	119.5
Kandahar DOG	Wiki-Solar	AFG	31.67	WKS0070144	65.795	10	Afghanistan	Solar		18.29
Kandahar JOL	Wiki-Solar	AFG	31.623	WKS0071196	65.792	10	Afghanistan	Solar		18.72
Mahipar Hydroelectric Power Plant Afghanistan	GEODB	AFG	34.556	GEODB0040541	69.4787	66	Afghanistan	Hydro	2017	174.91
Naghlu Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant Afghanistan	GEODB	AFG	34.641	GEODB0040534	69.717	100	Afghanistan	Hydro	2017	350.8

Get this via API

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# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
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# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'WRI Global Power Plant Database — Capacity, Fuel, Coordinates, Owner and Generation for 34,000+ Plants Worldwide' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

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Rows34,936

Size1.3 MB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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