AVA Velsen is a 16 MW waste power plant in Saarland, Germany. It is operated by AVA Velsen GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21,749 homes (estimated). It ranks #590 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1997, it is around 29 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 186,420 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 43,455 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005581.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by AVA Velsen GmbH.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.2°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 27% 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: 66/100 — 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.
The #41 largest waste power plant of 67 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 67 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,622 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.2139, 6.8345 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
