Biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 54.664, -3.5473.
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Iggesund Paperboard CHP Plant is a 49 MW biomass power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by Iggesund Paperboard (Workington). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 67,452 homes (estimated). It ranks #192 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 28,571 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 6,660 cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 14.1% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000047.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Iggesund Paperboard (Workington).
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 54.7°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 47% 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: 78/100 — 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.
The #2 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.
Coordinates 54.664, -3.5473 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
