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Cronheim A

Solar power plant in Bavaria, Germany. Approximate location 49.0942, 10.681.

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Cronheim A is a 4 MW solar power plant in Bavaria, Germany. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,701 homes (estimated). It ranks #1152 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 17.9% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
1,701homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0073635.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Germany

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.4°Cannual mean temp
3,473heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
466 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -1 °CJF: 0 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 8 °CON: 3 °CND: 1 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 41% 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: 75/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #523 largest solar power plant of 735 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 735 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 6,771 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 49.0942, 10.681 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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