Coal power plant in North Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 52.4049, 4.8465.
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Hemweg power station is a 685 MW coal power station in North Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by NUON. Based on reported annual generation of 3,132 GWh, it can supply roughly 895k homes. It ranks #14 of 119 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 636,535 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 148k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 7.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019298.
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 Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 685 MW, Hemweg power station is below the median coal plant in Netherlands (1,040 MW). 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.
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).
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by NUON.
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 52.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 23% 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: 63/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #6 largest coal power plant of 7 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 7 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 7,116 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.4049, 4.8465 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Hemweg power station is a 685 MW source-record coal power plant in North Holland, Netherlands, commissioned in 1995.
Hemweg power station generates about 3,132 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 895,000 homes.
Hemweg power station is operated by NUON.
Hemweg power station has measured emissions of about 636,535 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
