Utgrunden is a 10 MW wind power plant in Kalmar, Sweden. It is operated by 100% Vattenfall. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,935 homes (estimated). It ranks #143 of 168 Sweden power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 22.8% of Sweden's electricity; the national grid averages 35 gCO₂/kWh (98.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002162.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
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This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.4°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 54% 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: 81/100 — 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 #9 largest wind power plant of 10 in Sweden by capacity.
Sweden has 10 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 697 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.35, 16.2667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
