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Sint Eustatius

Solar power plant in Sint Eustatius, Netherlands. Approximate location 17.505, -62.98.

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Sint Eustatius is a 4 MW solar power plant in Sint Eustatius, Netherlands. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,744 homes (estimated). It ranks #101 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 21.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
1,744homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0070937.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Netherlands

Scaldia: 54 MW54ScaldiaBudel-Dorplein: 44 MW44Budel-Dorp…Delfzijl: 30 MW30DelfzijlMoerdijk: 20 MW20MoerdijkVeendam: 16 MW16VeendamAndijk: 15 MW15AndijkGroene Hoek: 15 MW15Groene HoekZierikzee: 14 MW14Zierikzee

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 17.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.1°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,972cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
92 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 25 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 27 °CON: 26 °CND: 25 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% below 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: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.9% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #12 largest solar power plant of 13 in Netherlands by capacity.

Netherlands has 13 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 245 MW of capacity.

Location

Coordinates 17.505, -62.98 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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