HKW Witzenhausen power station is a 34 MW biomass power plant in Hesse, Germany. It is operated by B+T Energie GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 47k homes (estimated). It ranks #429 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 6,301 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 1.5k cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 10.1% 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 CT-114.
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: Climate TRACE source-record capacity (modelled/legacy); fuel: Climate TRACE source-record fuel
At 34 MW, HKW Witzenhausen power station is well above the median biomass plant in Germany (20 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
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).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by B+T Energie GmbH.
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 51.3°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 45% 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: 77/100 — this site sits in the top 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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), 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 #15 largest biomass power plant of 73 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 73 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,477 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.3209, 9.8499 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
HKW Witzenhausen power station is a 34 MW source-record biomass power plant in Hesse, Germany.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 46,803 homes (estimated).
HKW Witzenhausen power station is operated by B+T Energie GmbH.
HKW Witzenhausen power station has measured emissions of about 6,301 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
