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Hastedt power station

Coal power plant in Bremen, Germany. Approximate location 53.0601, 8.8733.

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Hastedt power station is a 119 MW coal power station in Bremen, Germany. It is operated by swb Erzeugung GmbH & Co. KG. Based on reported annual generation of 703 GWh, it can supply roughly 200,771 homes. It ranks #170 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 320,282 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 74,658 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 20.6% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).

119MW installed capacity
703GWh reported / yr
200,771homes powered
320,282t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1989commissioned (~37 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005903.

320,282 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

74,658passenger cars driven for a year
41,769homes' yearly energy use
5,338,033tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2015: 763 GWh20152016: 703 GWh2016763 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by swb Erzeugung GmbH & Co. KG. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.9°Cannual mean temp
3,318heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
19 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 17 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 9 °CON: 5 °CND: 2 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 35% 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: 71/100 — 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.

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 #59 largest coal power plant of 98 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 98 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 49,623 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 53.0601, 8.8733 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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