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TREA Leuna

Waste power plant in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Approximate location 51.3249, 11.9958.

WasteSaxony-AnhaltGermanyCO₂ reported

TREA Leuna is a 34 MW waste power plant in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 46,115 homes (estimated). It ranks #365 of 1,369 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 300,720 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 70,098 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 330 gCO₂/kWh (59.1% low-carbon) (2025).

34MW installed capacity
46,115homes powered (est.)
300,720t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-31.

300,720 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

70,098passenger cars driven for a year
39,218homes' yearly energy use
5,012,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in Germany

MHKW Frankfurt: 72 MW72MHKW Frank…GMVA Niederrhein: 62 MW62GMVA Niede…MHKW Rothensee: 58 MW58MHKW Rothe…Müllkraftwerk Schwandorf: 54 MW54Müllkraftw…DT: 54 MW54DTRMVA Köln: 45 MW45RMVA KölnHKW Mannheim: 45 MW45HKW Mannhe…MHKW: 44 MW44MHKW

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

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 51.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.4°Cannual mean temp
3,150heating degree-days (base 18°C)
26cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
122 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 5 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 10 °CON: 5 °CND: 2 °CD18 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #14 largest waste power plant of 67 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 67 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,622 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.3249, 11.9958 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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