# Compare – Plants

Two to five plants or corporate groups (countries: up to six) in one table – identification, profile, products, capacity from documents, ownership control and data reliability; countries also with population, electricity price, trade in products, the R02 forecast and flow-analysis indicators. The comparison lives in the page address: the link can be saved, shared and cited.

- Mode: Plants
- Compared: ETEM Bulgaria (`aleu-p248`)
- Data as of: 2026-10-19, version 2.26
- Permanent link: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/compare?type=plants&id=aleu-p248
- JSON: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/compare.json?type=plants&id=aleu-p248 · CSV: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/compare.csv?type=plants&id=aleu-p248 · XLSX: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/compare.xlsx?type=plants&id=aleu-p248
- Reference: median of 731 register plants in the value-chain links: processing (numeric rows only)

> A comparison needs at least 2 items (at most 5).

## Method note

- **Missing data is not zero** – “–” means the register holds no information. No product-class entry is not proof that the class is not made – an entry exists only when a primary document names the class.
- **Capacity only from documents** – Capacity and output come from the plant’s document (report, release, permit), in its unit; without a document – “not in the document”, no estimates. Group capacity totals cover operating plants with a value in a document (one metal, one stage, the same unit) – a lower bound, given with the number of plants.
- **Coverage** – Every row shows the number of items with a value against the number of compared items (e.g. “known: 2/4”); in plant product rows – plants with at least one documented product.
- **Definition of control** – Country of the controlling entity as in “Ownership control” (D17): (a) ultimate parent from GLEIF Level 2, (b) GLEIF exception – the company controls itself, (c) group from company documents, (d) not established. The share from outside the EU is among plants with an established controller; the counting unit is a plant, not weighted by capacity.
- **Country scope** – Operating, idled and under-construction plants (as in “Ownership control”); closed plants and plants of unknown status are not counted.
- **Country context and trade** – Population – Eurostat demo_pjan; industrial electricity price – Eurostat nrg_pc_205 (period, band and tax variant in the note); trade – Eurostat Comext, reporter = country, the file’s series of years, net mass in t, each metal separately, never added up across metals; a year without data – a gap. EU-27: population and trade – sum of the Member States, electricity – EU value from the file or population-weighted average.
- **Forecast and flow indicators** – R02 forecast – median and p10–p90 range for model countries only; indicators from the “Metal flows” analyses – shared by the compared countries, with the fact card; a country without an analysis – “no analysis”.
- **Per capita** – The “per capita” switch divides plant counts by population (per million inhabitants) and trade into kg per inhabitant; population of the latest year of the file for the whole series.
- **Reference** – Countries – EU-27 (total or structure); plants – median of register plants in the same value-chain links (numbers only); groups – median of the 10 largest groups (by number of plants) in the dominant metal of the comparison.
- **Distances** – Great-circle distance (haversine formula, Earth radius 6371 km) between plant coordinates – not road distance.
- **No rankings** – The comparison does not rank items by capacity and holds no company financial data; the user sets the column order. Dataset as of 2026-10-19, version 2.26.

## Citation

ai-waw.com, Companies – comparison (Plants, 1 items), dataset as of 2026-10-19, version 2.26, https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/compare?type=plants&id=aleu-p248

Use: the overview and company cards (pages and Markdown versions) may be mined, including for AI model training, with attribution. The complete dataset and the JSON data of the cards are reserved as a compiled database (Art. 4(3) Directive (EU) 2019/790). The reservation does not cover the coordinate layer under ODbL 1.0 nor data from ASI member pages (CC BY 4.0).