Schaerbeek Siomab ST1 is a 45 MW waste power plant in Brussels Capital, Belgium. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 61,945 homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 75 Belgium power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 150 gCO₂/kWh (72.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002268.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.9°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 17% 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: 59/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #2 largest waste power plant of 8 in Belgium by capacity.
Belgium has 8 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 223 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.8504, 4.3488 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
