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Cleveland Potash

Storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 54.5561, -0.8216.

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Cleveland Potash is a 6 MW storage power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Kiwi Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,501 homes (estimated). It ranks #1209 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 8,882 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 2,070 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
1,501homes powered (est.)
8,882t CO₂ / yr (EU ETS)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR2001154.

8,882 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,070passenger cars driven for a year
1,158homes' yearly energy use
148,033tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.

Capacity vs largest storage plants in United Kingdom

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

Owner

Operated by Kiwi Power.

Local climate & thermal context

This storage plant stores and releases electricity (pumped-hydro or batteries) to balance the grid. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

7.9°Cannual mean temp
3,674heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
193 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 9 °CMJ: 12 °CJJ: 14 °CJA: 14 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 9 °CON: 5 °CND: 4 °CD14 °C

Heating degree-days here run 49% 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: 79/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #20 largest storage power plant of 31 in United Kingdom by capacity.

United Kingdom has 31 storage power plants in this dataset, together about 897 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 54.5561, -0.8216 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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