Waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 51.9769, -0.298.
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Hitchin is a 2 MW waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Biffa. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,064 homes (estimated). It ranks #2485 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000779.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Biffa. All plants by this company →
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.0°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 24% 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: 64/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.
The #257 largest waste power plant of 329 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 329 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,886 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.9769, -0.298 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
