Waste power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 55.9747, -2.4604.
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Dunbar Power Plant is a 14 MW waste power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by Viridor. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 19k homes (estimated). It ranks #748 of 2,860 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 328,663 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 77k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000793.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 14 MW, Dunbar Power Plant is well above the median waste plant in United Kingdom (2 MW). Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
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 (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Viridor. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.0°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 57% 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: 82/100 — this site sits in the top 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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), 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 #33 largest waste power plant of 329 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 329 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,886 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 55.9747, -2.4604 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Dunbar Power Plant is a 14 MW source-record waste power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 19,272 homes (estimated).
Dunbar Power Plant is operated by Viridor.
Dunbar Power Plant has measured emissions of about 328,663 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS).
