Biomass power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 55.7884, -3.9822.
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Liberty Steel Dalzell is a 17 MW biomass power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by SIMEC/ Liberty House. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 23,401 homes (estimated). It ranks #526 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 11,994 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 2,796 cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 14.1% of United Kingdom's electricity; the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR2001133.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SIMEC/ Liberty House. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 55.8°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 42% 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: 76/100 — 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.
The #27 largest biomass power plant of 226 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 226 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 1,584 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 55.7884, -3.9822 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
