Ruabon

Ruabon is a 2 MW waste power plant in Wales, United Kingdom. It is operated by Waste Recycling Group. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,890 homes (estimated). It ranks #2221 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 3,225 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 752 cars driven for a year. 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 GBR0000544.

3,225 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in United Kingdom

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Waste Recycling Group. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 53.0°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 31% 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: 69/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #186 largest waste power plant of 329 in United Kingdom by capacity.

United Kingdom has 329 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,886 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Penycae Solar Farm · Solar · 5 MW · Wales
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• Pen y Bont · Waste · 2 MW · Wales
• Bronwylfa Reservoir · Solar · 3 MW · Wales
• Wrexham Social Housing PV · Solar · 5 MW · Wales
• Knolton Farmhouse Cheese Solar Farm · Solar · 1 MW · Wales

Location

Coordinates 52.9977, -3.0444 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.