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KWK-Anlage Krefeld DT

Gas power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Approximate location 51.3392, 6.6642.

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KWK-Anlage Krefeld DT is a 26 MW gas power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by Cargill Deutschland GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 29,058 homes (estimated). It ranks #420 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2004, it is around 22 years old — relatively modern. In context, gas supplies about 16.5% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).

26MW installed capacity
29,058homes powered (est.)
2004commissioned (~22 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005925.

~40,681 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

9,483passenger cars driven for a year
5,305homes' yearly energy use
678,024tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Germany

Gersteinwerk: 2,004 MW2kGersteinwe…Emsland: 1,837 MW2kEmslandGemeinschaftskraftwerk Irsching: 1,391 MW1kGemeinscha…Knapsack Natural Gas I: 1,230 MW1kKnapsack N…Trianel Natural Gaskraftwerk: 838 MW838Trianel Na…Trianel Hamm power station: 838 MW838Trianel Ha…Franken 1: 823 MW823Franken 1Charlottenburg: 633 MW633Charlotten…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Cargill Deutschland GmbH. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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 51.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
2,729heating degree-days (base 18°C)
40cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
38 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 4 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 11% 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: 55/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #130 largest gas power plant of 199 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 199 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 26,271 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.3392, 6.6642 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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