Heizkraftwerk Hagen-Kabel is a 251 MW gas power station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It ranks #147 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1980, it is around 46 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 32 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 7 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 16.5% 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 WRI1005746.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 251 MW, Heizkraftwerk Hagen-Kabel is well above the median gas plant in Germany (52.9 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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).
The #40 largest gas power plant of 241 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 241 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 37,245 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.411, 7.4917 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Heizkraftwerk Hagen-Kabel is a 251 MW gas power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, commissioned in 1980.
Heizkraftwerk Hagen-Kabel has measured emissions of about 32 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
