Gas power plant in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Approximate location 49.5119, 5.9646.
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Esch-sur-Alzette CCGT Power Plant Luxembourg is a 385 MW gas power station in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 434k homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 2 Luxembourg power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 20,343 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 4.7k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 3.9% of Luxembourg's electricity; the national grid averages 123 gCO₂/kWh (91.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0045217.
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
Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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).
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.5°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 28% 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: 66/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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.
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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), 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.
Luxembourg has 1 gas power plant in this dataset, together about 385 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.5119, 5.9646 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Esch-sur-Alzette CCGT Power Plant Luxembourg is a 385 MW source-record gas power plant in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 433,620 homes (estimated).
Esch-sur-Alzette CCGT Power Plant Luxembourg has measured emissions of about 20,343 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
