Kalkar nuclear power plant — Germany

Kalkar nuclear power plant is a 327 MW nuclear power station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It ranks #116 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 0.0% 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 GEM_nuc_kalkar_germa.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM Global Nuclear Power Tracker September 2025 unit-status sum (cancelled); fuel: GEM GNPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 327 MW, Kalkar nuclear power plant is below the median nuclear plant in Germany (1,302 MW). Technically it is described as fast breeder reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Cancelled” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #18 largest nuclear power plant of 25 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 25 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 26,528 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• P&L Werk Appeldorn · Gas · 11.4 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Weeze Solar Power Plant · Solar · 14 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Industrie-Kraftwerk · Coal · 79 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Solvay Rheinberg power station · Gas · 130 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• KW West · Coal · 640 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Abfallentsorgungszentrum Asdonkshof · Waste · 20.8 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia

Location

Coordinates 51.7637, 6.3272 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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