Coal power plant in South Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 51.9587, 4.0272.
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Maasvlakte 3 is a 1,100 MW coal power station in South Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by E.ON. Based on reported annual generation of 16,282 GWh, it can supply roughly 4,652,085 homes. It ranks #5 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 2,609,734 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 608,330 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 7.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019296.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by E.ON. All plants by this company →
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 52.0°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 19% 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: 60/100 — 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.
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 #2 largest coal power plant of 5 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 5 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 5,015 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.9587, 4.0272 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
