Heizkraftwerk Leipzig-Nord is a 167 MW gas power station in Saxony, Germany. It ranks #171 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1996, it is around 30 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 234,921 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 55k 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 WRI1005751.
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 GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 167 MW, Heizkraftwerk Leipzig-Nord 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 #51 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 51.3512, 12.3784 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Heizkraftwerk Leipzig-Nord is a 167 MW gas power plant in Saxony, Germany, commissioned in 1996.
Heizkraftwerk Leipzig-Nord has measured emissions of about 234,921 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
