Spitzenlastkraftwerk Großkayna is a 120 MW oil power station in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is operated by envia THERM GmbH. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 90,102 homes (estimated). It ranks #166 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 442,980 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 103,259 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 3.8% 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 WRI1006052.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by envia THERM GmbH. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.3°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 28% 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: 67/100 — 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 #6 largest oil power plant of 26 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 26 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 3,072 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 51.2919, 11.9465 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
