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Aspiravi Wuustwezel

Wind power plant in Flanders, Belgium. Approximate location 51.2488, 3.2166.

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Aspiravi Wuustwezel is a 22 MW wind power plant in Flanders, Belgium. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 18,806 homes (estimated). It ranks #43 of 75 Belgium power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 18.8% of Belgium's electricity; the national grid averages 150 gCO₂/kWh (72.0% low-carbon) (2025).

22MW installed capacity
18,806homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002209.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Belgium

Northwind: 216 MW216NorthwindThorntonbank - C-Power - Area SW: 178 MW178Thorntonba…Belwind Phase 1: 171 MW171Belwind Ph…Thorntonbank - C-Power - Area NE: 148 MW148Thorntonba…Windvision Estinnes WIND: 80 MW80Windvision…Froidchapelle Wind: 25 MW25Froidchape…Aspiravi Wuustwezel: 22 MW22Aspiravi W…WM Park Powerport Zeebrugge: 12 MW12WM Park Po…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.2°Cannual mean temp
2,840heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
19 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 11 °CON: 7 °CND: 4 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 16% 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: 58/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #7 largest wind power plant of 12 in Belgium by capacity.

Belgium has 12 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 875 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.2488, 3.2166 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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