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Delfzijl

Solar power plant in Groningen, Netherlands. Approximate location 53.3, 6.958.

SolarGroningenNetherlandsCO₂ reported

Delfzijl is a 30 MW solar power plant in Groningen, Netherlands. It is operated by EEW Energy From Waste GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,764 homes (estimated). It ranks #61 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 25,914 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 6,041 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 21.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).

30MW installed capacity
12,764homes powered (est.)
25,914t CO₂ / yr (EU ETS)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0068863.

25,914 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

6,041passenger cars driven for a year
3,379homes' yearly energy use
431,900tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Netherlands

Scaldia: 54 MW54ScaldiaBudel-Dorplein: 44 MW44Budel-Dorp…Delfzijl: 30 MW30DelfzijlMoerdijk: 20 MW20MoerdijkVeendam: 16 MW16VeendamAndijk: 15 MW15AndijkGroene Hoek: 15 MW15Groene HoekZierikzee: 14 MW14Zierikzee

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

Owner

Operated by EEW Energy From Waste GmbH. All plants by this company →

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 53.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.2°Cannual mean temp
3,198heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
-3 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 2 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 17 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 10 °CON: 6 °CND: 3 °CD17 °C

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.

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 #3 largest solar power plant of 13 in Netherlands by capacity.

Netherlands has 13 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 245 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 53.3, 6.958 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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