MVA Helmstedt power station is a 42 MW biomass power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is operated by EEW Energy From Waste GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 58,228 homes (estimated). It ranks #319 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 10.1% 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-111.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by EEW Energy From Waste GmbH. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.2°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 36% 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: 72/100 — 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 #12 largest biomass power plant of 72 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 72 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,427 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.1702, 10.9783 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
