Kelenföldi Erőmű is a 178 MW gas power station in Budapest, Hungary. It is operated by Budapesti Erőmű Zrt [100%]. Based on reported annual generation of 820 GWh, it can supply roughly 234k homes. It ranks #14 of 37 Hungary power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. Its annual emissions of 212,957 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 50k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 20.3% of Hungary's electricity; the national grid averages 163 gCO₂/kWh (75.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1020253.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000400312); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 178 MW, Kelenföldi Erőmű is well above the median gas plant in Hungary (110 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Budapesti Erőmű Zrt [100%].
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 47.5°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 12% 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: 56/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 #6 largest gas power plant of 20 in Hungary by capacity.
Hungary has 20 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 4,706 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.4624, 19.0563 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kelenföldi Erőmű is a 178 MW source-record gas power plant in Budapest, Hungary, commissioned in 2006.
Kelenföldi Erőmű generates about 820 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 234,428 homes.
Kelenföldi Erőmű is operated by Budapesti Erőmű Zrt [100%].
Kelenföldi Erőmű has measured emissions of about 212,957 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
