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Markersbach hydroelectric plant
2nd-largest grid storage in Germany of 25 · top 46% worldwide (#435 of 965)
- Operator
- Vattenfall
- Owner
- Vattenfall AB
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 1,046 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 1981
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · Germany · 25 ranked
- #1Goldisthal hydroelectric plant1.1 GW
- #2Markersbach hydroelectric plant1.0 GW
- #3Wehr hydroelectric plant910 MW
- #4Waldeck 2 hydroelectric plant480 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Markersbach
- Its voltage
- 380 kV
- Distance
- 129 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Line operator
- ČEPS
- Substations in range
- 8
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Markersbach hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 1.0 GW · hydro
- 380 kV line13 m · Transmission Line
- Markersbach129 m · Substation / Converter
- Markersbach-Zwönitz-Röhrsdorf138 m · Transmission Line
- Umspannwerk Zwönitz14 km · Substation / Converter
- Ltg 445 und 446 Röhrsdorf - Hradec17 km · Transmission Line
- STEGAL Gas Pipeline25 km · Pipeline
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)