Installed capacity — Hungary
What Hungary could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2022, next to how much has actually run.
- Natural gas 37.5%
- Solar 23.8%
- Nuclear 18.1%
- Lignite 9.5%
- Oil 4.0%
- Onshore wind 3.0%
- Biomass 2.0%
- Other sources 0.7%
- Waste 0.5%
- Hard coal 0.4%
- Run-of-river hydro 0.3%
- Hydro reservoir 0.3%
- Geothermal 0.0%
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total | Against 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 37.5% | −37 | |
| Solar | 23.8% | +695 | |
| Nuclear | 18.1% | +6 | |
| Lignite | 9.5% | 0 | |
| Oil | 4.0% | +5 | |
| Onshore wind | 3.0% | 0 | |
| Biomass | 2.0% | 0 | |
| Other sources | 0.7% | 0 | |
| Waste | 0.5% | 0 | |
| Hard coal | 0.4% | 0 | |
| Run-of-river hydro | 0.3% | +3 | |
| Hydro reservoir | 0.3% | 0 | |
| Geothermal | 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 10,606 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 7,165 MW — 68% of the fleet, on 08/10/2025, 11:45:00.
- Gas 2,606/ 4,399 MW 59%
- Solar 4,447/ 2,524 MW 176%
- Nuclear 1,959/ 1,916 MW 102%
- Coal 539/ 1,049 MW 51%
- Wind 286/ 323 MW 88%
- Biomass 230/ 213 MW 108%
- Other 564/ 122 MW 463%
- Hydro 455/ 61 MW 744%
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 2015 to 2022.
- 2022 10,606MW +672
- 2021 9,935MW +372
- 2020 9,562MW +461
- 2019 9,101MW +563
- 2018 8,538MW +291
- 2017 8,247MW +71
- 2016 8,176MW −66
- 2015 8,241MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, installed generation capacity aggregated by production type. The year is the one the transmission 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.