Biomass power plant in North Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 52.4011, 4.7935.
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Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam power station is a 151 MW biomass power station in North Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by AEB Exploitatie BV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 208k homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 119 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 303,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 71k cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 5.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-334.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: Climate TRACE source-record capacity (modelled/legacy); fuel: GEM wiki operating-unit Fuel(s), dominant by operating MW >=80%, fetched 2026-07-05
At 151 MW, Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam power station is well above the median biomass plant in Netherlands (49 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by AEB Exploitatie BV.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 23% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 63/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest biomass power plant of 9 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 9 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 582 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.4011, 4.7935 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam power station is a 151 MW source-record biomass power plant in North Holland, Netherlands.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 207,862 homes (estimated).
Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam power station is operated by AEB Exploitatie BV.
Afval Energie Bedrijf Amsterdam power station has modelled emissions of about 303,300 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
