Heizkraftwerk 3 is a 211 MW coal power station in Saarland, Germany. It ranks #156 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 20.6% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005734.
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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 GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 211 MW, Heizkraftwerk 3 is below the median coal plant in Germany (296.2 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #65 largest coal power plant of 124 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 124 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 64,920 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.249, 6.8792 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Heizkraftwerk 3 is a 211 MW coal power plant in Saarland, Germany, commissioned in 1989.
