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WRI Global Power Plant Database

The checked version 1.3.0 CSV contains 34,936 plants in 167 countries and was released in June 2021. Its annual generation fields cover 2013 through 2017, and WRI does not state a recurring refresh schedule for the current file.

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Attribution: Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute. 2021. Global Power Plant Database version 1.3.0. Accessed through https://datasets.wri.org/datasets/global-power-plant-database on <date>

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