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GMVA Niederrhein

Waste power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Approximate location 51.4855, 6.8344.

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GMVA Niederrhein is a 62 MW waste power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by GMVA Gemeinschafts-Müll-Verbrennungsanlage Niederrhein GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 84,659 homes (estimated). It ranks #261 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).

62MW installed capacity
84,659homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005701.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in Germany

MHKW Frankfurt: 72 MW72MHKW Frank…GMVA Niederrhein: 62 MW62GMVA Niede…MHKW Rothensee: 58 MW58MHKW Rothe…Müllkraftwerk Schwandorf: 54 MW54Müllkraftw…DT: 54 MW54DTRMVA Köln: 45 MW45RMVA KölnHKW Mannheim: 45 MW45HKW Mannhe…MHKW: 44 MW44MHKW

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

Owner

Operated by GMVA Gemeinschafts-Müll-Verbrennungsanlage Niederrhein GmbH. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.3°Cannual mean temp
2,816heating degree-days (base 18°C)
21cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
79 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 4 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 15% 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: 57/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

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 #2 largest waste power plant of 67 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 67 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,622 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.4855, 6.8344 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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