Klein Wanzleben power station is a 23 MW gas power plant in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. It is operated by Nordzucker AG [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 26k homes (estimated). It ranks #535 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 84,552 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 20k cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 16.5% 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 GOGPT_kleinwanzleben_german.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000400195; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 23 MW, Klein Wanzleben power station is below the median gas plant in Germany (52.9 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. 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 Nordzucker AG [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 52.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 #183 largest gas power plant of 241 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 241 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 37,245 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.07009, 11.38531 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Klein Wanzleben power station is a 23 MW gas power plant in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, commissioned in 1994.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 25,904 homes (estimated).
Klein Wanzleben power station is operated by Nordzucker AG [100%].
Klein Wanzleben power station has measured emissions of about 84,552 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
