Wind power plant in North Holland, Netherlands. Approximate location 52.46, 4.65.
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Velsen is a 9 MW wind power plant in North Holland, Netherlands. It is operated by Papierfabrieken Van Gelder Zonen NV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 7,658 homes (estimated). It ranks #84 of 106 Netherlands power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 42,156 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 9,827 cars driven for a year. In context, wind supplies about 25.0% 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 WRI1005462.
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 Papierfabrieken Van Gelder Zonen NV.
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 52.5°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 22% 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: 63/100 — 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 #21 largest wind power plant of 40 in Netherlands by capacity.
Netherlands has 40 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 1,937 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.46, 4.65 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
