Coal power plant in South Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 51.943944, 4.071733.
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Maasvlakte Power Station (Riverstone Holdings) is a 800 MW coal power station in South Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by Onyx Germany GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.0 million homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 119 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. Its annual emissions of 1,221,924 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 285k 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 GEM_coa_maasvlakteriverstone_nethe.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103095; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 800 MW, Maasvlakte Power Station (Riverstone Holdings) is below the median coal plant in Netherlands (1,040 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. 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; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Onyx Germany GmbH.
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 51.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), 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 #5 largest coal power plant of 7 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 7 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 7,116 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.943944, 4.071733 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Maasvlakte Power Station (Riverstone Holdings) is a 800 MW coal power plant in South Holland, Netherlands, commissioned in 2015.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,001,142 homes (estimated).
Maasvlakte Power Station (Riverstone Holdings) is operated by Onyx Germany GmbH.
Maasvlakte Power Station (Riverstone Holdings) has measured emissions of about 1,221,924 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
