Herning CHP is a 88 MW biomass power plant in Central Jutland, Denmark. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 121,138 homes (estimated). It ranks #18 of 47 Denmark power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. In context, biomass supplies about 20.1% of Denmark's electricity; the national grid averages 114 gCO₂/kWh (91.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022044.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.1°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 49% 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: 79/100 — 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.
Denmark has 1 biomass power plant in this dataset, together about 88 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.1214, 9.0068 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
