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Thames Water Utilities — power plant portfolio

Thames Water Utilities operates 14 power plants across 1 country, with a combined installed capacity of 39 MW.

14power plants
39MW total capacity
1countries
t CO₂/yr (source-labelled)

Fleet by fuel

Waste: 6 plants6WasteBiomass: 4 plants4BiomassWind: 2 plants2WindSolar: 2 plants2Solar

Fleet interpretation

Thames Water Utilities is represented here as an asset portfolio, not just a company label. The visible fleet spans 1 country; the largest concentration is United Kingdom (14).

The fuel mix by asset count is waste (6), biomass (4), wind (2), solar (2). The largest listed asset is Beckton STW Enhanced Sludge Digestion in United Kingdom (6 MW), and the mean listed unit size is about 3 MW across units with capacity data.

CO₂ coverage is source-labelled: 0 plants have a reported or modelled CO₂ value in the dataset, including 0 measured records. Missing values remain blank rather than inferred as company totals.

Method: plant-level records are grouped by owner/operator label, then aggregated by country, fuel, capacity and CO₂ provenance.

All 14 plants

PlantFuelCountryMWt CO₂/yr
Beckton STW Enhanced Sludge DigestionWasteUnited Kingdom6
Mogden STWWasteUnited Kingdom6
Crossness Sewage WorksWasteUnited Kingdom6
Riverside Sewage Treatment Works Digestion PlantWasteUnited Kingdom4
Deephams Sewerage Treatment WorksBiomassUnited Kingdom3
Crossness Sewage Works TurbineWindUnited Kingdom2
Rye Meads Sewerage Treatment WorksBiomassUnited Kingdom2
Beckton Sewage Treatment WorksWindUnited Kingdom2
WaltonSolarUnited Kingdom2
CrossnessSolarUnited Kingdom2
Basingstoke Sewage Treatment WorksBiomassUnited Kingdom1
Slough Sewage Treatment WorksWasteUnited Kingdom1
Swindon Sewerage Treatment WorksBiomassUnited Kingdom1
Longreach STW - extensionWasteUnited Kingdom1

Ownership & capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). CO₂ is measured for EPA/EU ETS records and modelled for Climate TRACE records.

Frequently asked questions

How many power plants does Thames Water Utilities operate?

Thames Water Utilities operates 14 power plants across 1 country, with about 39 MW of total capacity.

What is Thames Water Utilities's largest power plant?

Beckton STW Enhanced Sludge Digestion in United Kingdom is its largest at about 6 MW.

What types of power plants does Thames Water Utilities run?

Its fleet is mostly waste (6), biomass (4), wind (2).

By Dmytro Aheiev, Inzonex Research · ORCID 0009-0001-5512-0291 · data sources and methodology