Maxau Mill power station is a 120 MW oil power station in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is operated by Schwarz Produktion Stiftung & Co KG. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 90k homes (estimated). It ranks #218 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1968, it is around 58 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its modelled annual emissions are 462,150 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 108k 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 CT-18.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000408818); fuel: Climate TRACE source-record fuel
At 120 MW, Maxau Mill power station is well above the median oil plant in Germany (88 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. 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; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Schwarz Produktion Stiftung & Co KG.
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 49.0°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 25% 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: 65/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 #8 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 49.0421, 8.3135 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Maxau Mill power station is a 120 MW source-record oil power plant in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, commissioned in 1968.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 90,102 homes (estimated).
Maxau Mill power station is operated by Schwarz Produktion Stiftung & Co KG.
Maxau Mill power station has modelled emissions of about 462,150 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
