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Klingenberg

Coal power plant in Berlin, Germany. Approximate location 52.4889, 13.497.

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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 178,571 homes. It ranks #131 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1981, it is around 45 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 314,069 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 73,210 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).

164MW installed capacity
625GWh reported / yr
178,571homes powered
314,069t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
1981commissioned (~45 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005864.

314,069 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

73,210passenger cars driven for a year
40,958homes' yearly energy use
5,234,483tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2015: 510 GWh20152016: 572 GWh20162017: 625 GWh2017625 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Vattenfall Europe Wärme Aktiengesellschaft. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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.

9.1°Cannual mean temp
3,240heating degree-days (base 18°C)
19cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
40 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 9 °CON: 4 °CND: 2 °CD18 °C

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.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #53 largest coal power plant of 98 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 98 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 49,623 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 52.4889, 13.497 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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