HKW Bad Salzungen is a 10 MW gas power plant in Thuringia, Germany. It is operated by Thüringer Energie AG. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 10,924 homes (estimated). It ranks #816 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 9,798 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,284 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 WRI1005774.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Thüringer Energie AG. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.8°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 48% 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #197 largest gas power plant of 199 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 199 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 26,271 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.8003, 10.2206 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
