Biomass power plant in South Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 51.8974, 4.2765.
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AVR Rozenburg power station is a 130 MW biomass power station in South Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by Dutch Enviro Energy Holdings BV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 178,954 homes (estimated). It ranks #28 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. 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-365.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Dutch Enviro Energy Holdings BV. All plants by this company →
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 51.9°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 20% 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: 61/100 — 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 #1 largest biomass power plant of 8 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 8 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 431 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.8974, 4.2765 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
