Gas power plant in South Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 51.8741, 4.2957.
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Botlek Refinery power station is a 59 MW gas power plant in South Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by Esso Nederland BV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 66,450 homes (estimated). It ranks #46 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 52,153 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 12,157 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 34.9% 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-347.
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 Esso Nederland BV.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #18 largest gas power plant of 23 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 23 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 11,162 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.8741, 4.2957 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
