Berlin-Moabit power station is a 89 MW coal power plant in Berlin, Germany. It is operated by Vattenfall Europe AG. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 111,377 homes (estimated). It ranks #264 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1990, it is around 36 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 272,890 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 63,611 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 20.6% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005950.
At 89 MW, Berlin-Moabit power station is below the median coal plant in Germany (260 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
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; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Vattenfall Europe AG. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.5°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 30% 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: 68/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #81 largest coal power plant of 121 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 121 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 62,279 MW of capacity.
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Coordinates 52.5374, 13.3461 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
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Berlin-Moabit power station is a 89 MW coal power plant in Berlin, Germany, commissioned in 1990.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 111,377 homes (estimated).
Berlin-Moabit power station is operated by Vattenfall Europe AG.
Berlin-Moabit power station has reported about 272,890 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
