Klingenberg is a 164 MW coal power station in Berlin, Germany. It is operated by Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft. Based on reported annual generation of 625 GWh, it can supply roughly 179k homes. It ranks #173 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1981, it is around 45 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 314,069 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 73k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 20.6% 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 WRI1005864.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109 nameplate capacity; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 164 MW, Klingenberg is below the median coal plant in Germany (296 MW). Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
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; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.5°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 32% 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: 69/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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 #70 largest coal power plant of 124 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 124 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 64,920 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.4889, 13.497 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Klingenberg is a 164 MW source-record coal power plant in Berlin, Germany, commissioned in 1981.
Klingenberg generates about 625 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 178,571 homes.
Klingenberg is operated by Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft.
Klingenberg has modelled emissions of about 314,069 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
