Biomass power plant in Overijssel, Netherlands. Approximate location 52.2342, 6.7862.
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Twence Afval power station is a 70 MW biomass power plant in Overijssel, Netherlands. It is operated by Twence Holding BV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 96,360 homes (estimated). It ranks #40 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 5.1% of Netherlands's electricity; the national grid averages 254 gCO₂/kWh (54.2% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-368.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Twence Holding BV.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.2°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 27% 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: 66/100 — 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 biomass power plant of 8 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 8 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 431 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.2342, 6.7862 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
