MHKW Pirmasens is a 15 MW waste power plant in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is operated by EEW Energy from Waste Saarbrücken GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21k homes (estimated). It ranks #679 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1999, it is around 27 years old — long-established. Its modelled annual emissions are 143,450 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 33k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005944.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 15 MW, MHKW Pirmasens is below the median waste plant in Germany (22 MW). Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
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 EEW Energy from Waste Saarbrücken GmbH.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.2°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 33% 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: 70/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #45 largest waste power plant of 68 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 68 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,698 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.2282, 7.5955 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
MHKW Pirmasens is a 15 MW source-record waste power plant in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, commissioned in 1999.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 20,648 homes (estimated).
MHKW Pirmasens is operated by EEW Energy from Waste Saarbrücken GmbH.
MHKW Pirmasens has modelled emissions of about 143,450 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
