Infrastructure

Installed capacity — Czechia

What Czechia could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.

Installed capacity
22,470MW
reported for 2026
Renewables
32.2%
7,238 of 22,470 MW
Largest source
Lignite
7,040 MW · 31.3% of total
Against 2025
+340MW
1.5% against the previous year

The generation fleet, 2026

Installed capacity by source, as the operator reports it.

Installed capacity 22,470MW reported for 2026 Cleaner energy for tomorrow
Renewables 32.2% 7,238 MW
Largest source Lignite 31.3%
Against 2025 +340 MW
Source Capacity (MW) Of total
Lignite 7,040−200 31.3%
Solar 5,331+916 23.7%
Nuclear 4,040 18.0%
Natural gas 1,820+200 8.1%
Pumped-storage hydro 1,172 5.2%
Hydro reservoir 773+6 3.4%
Hard coal 600−600 2.7%
Other sources 460 2.0%
Biomass 410 1.8%
Onshore wind 384+18 1.7%
Run-of-river hydro 340 1.5%
Waste 100 0.4%
Oil 0 0.0%

How much ran at once

The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.

Of 22,470 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 12,662 MW — 56% of the fleet, on 20/01/2026, 09:30:00.

The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.

How it changed, year by year

Total installed capacity, from 2025 to 2026.

  1. 2026 22,470MW +340
  2. 2025 22,130MW

The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.

Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.