{"entry":{"slug":"world-power-plants-wri-archive","kind":"dataset","title":"World power plants — WRI 1.3.0 archive","description":"Power plant locations, primary fuel types, and capacities from the archived WRI Global Power Plant Database.","topic":"Energy","region":"World","updated":"2026-09-15","preview":"/library/world-power-plants-wri-archive.2c0086ff7fab.webp","assetId":"world-power-plants-wri-archive","sourcePage":"https://github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database","notes":["This is the version 1.3.0 archive. WRI stopped maintaining the database in 2022.","Each point represents a source plant record. It does not confirm current operation.","Use fuel and capacity fields to compare the historical distribution of power generation sites.","Capacity is in megawatts. It is not electricity generated over a period.","Coverage and record dates vary by country. The archive was retrieved on 15 September 2026."],"related":["world-oil-pipelines","world-gas-pipelines","world-nuclear-power-plants"],"preset":{"color":"#2563eb","fillOpacity":0.28,"basemap":"carto","bounds":[-179.9777,-77.847,179.3887,71.292]}},"asset":{"id":"world-power-plants-wri-archive","version":"eedd7dfbc4b1","url":"/library/world-power-plants-wri-archive.eedd7dfbc4b1.geojson","sha256":"eedd7dfbc4b15cce2ab4ffeeda0551d2efc187345744a74d2cc048d54b8ccbbb","bytes":9941910,"featureCount":34936,"geometryTypes":["Point"],"source":{"name":"World Resources Institute","url":"https://github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"World Resources Institute"},"fields":[{"name":"name","description":"Plant name."},{"name":"source_id","description":"WRI plant identifier."},{"name":"country","description":"Country name."},{"name":"fuel","description":"Primary fuel type."},{"name":"capacity_mw","description":"Plant capacity in megawatts."},{"name":"source_url","description":"Original record source URL."}]}}