DK Kraftwerk is a 22 MW other power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by DK Recycling und Roheisen GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 17k homes (estimated). It ranks #545 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. Its annual emissions of 321,990 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 75k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005633.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000407940); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 22 MW, DK Kraftwerk is below the median other plant in Germany (56 MW). This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
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 per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by DK Recycling und Roheisen GmbH.
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.4°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 9% 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: 54/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #9 largest other power plant of 12 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 12 other power plants in this dataset, together about 958 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.4191, 6.7385 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
DK Kraftwerk is a 22 MW source-record other power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, commissioned in 2010.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated).
DK Kraftwerk is operated by DK Recycling und Roheisen GmbH.
DK Kraftwerk has measured emissions of about 321,990 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
