Marbach power station is a 695 MW oil power station in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is operated by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 522k homes (estimated). It ranks #69 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1970, it is around 56 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its annual emissions of 46,906 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 11k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 3.8% of Germany's electricity; the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_marbach_german.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408813; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 695 MW, Marbach power station is well above the median oil plant in Germany (88 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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 EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 48.9°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), 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 #2 largest oil power plant of 27 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 27 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 3,844 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 48.92808, 9.23109 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Marbach power station is a 695 MW oil power plant in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, commissioned in 1970.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 521,845 homes (estimated).
Marbach power station is operated by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG [100%].
Marbach power station has measured emissions of about 46,906 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
