Rostock power station is a 514 MW coal power station in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is operated by Kraftwerks- und Netzgesellschaft. Based on reported annual generation of 2,849 GWh, it can supply roughly 813,885 homes. It ranks #58 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 683,394 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 159,299 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 20.6% 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 WRI1005866.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kraftwerks- und Netzgesellschaft.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.1°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 40% 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: 75/100 — 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 #35 largest coal power plant of 98 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 98 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 49,623 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.1428, 12.1329 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
