Cogeneration power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. Approximate location 56.2012, -3.1623.
CogenerationScotlandUnited Kingdom
Markinch CHP is a 65 MW cogeneration power plant in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is operated by RWE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 81,342 homes (estimated). It ranks #143 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000155.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by RWE. All plants by this company →
This cogeneration plant produces electricity and useful heat together for higher fuel efficiency. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.2°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 39% 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: 74/100 — 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 #4 largest cogeneration power plant of 7 in United Kingdom by capacity.
United Kingdom has 7 cogeneration power plants in this dataset, together about 3,006 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.2012, -3.1623 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
