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Holbrook Community Renewable Energy Centre

Biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 53.3308, -1.3323.

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Holbrook Community Renewable Energy Centre is a 6 MW biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by UYE (UK) / Veolia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,947 homes (estimated). It ranks #1151 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 14.1% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
8,947homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000117.

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by UYE (UK) / Veolia.

Local climate & thermal context

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 53.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.0°Cannual mean temp
3,269heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
109 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 16 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 13 °CSO: 10 °CON: 6 °CND: 4 °CD16 °C

Heating degree-days here run 33% 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: 70/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #56 largest biomass power plant of 226 in United Kingdom by capacity.

United Kingdom has 226 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 1,584 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 53.3308, -1.3323 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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