Voerde power station — Germany

Voerde power station is a 850 MW gas power station in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It ranks #53 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 16.5% 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 GOGPT_voerde_german.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 850 MW, Voerde power station is well above the median gas plant in Germany (52.9 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #9 largest gas power plant of 241 in Germany by capacity.

Germany has 241 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 37,245 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• KW Voerde · Coal · 1,390 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• KW West · Coal · 640 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• KW Walsum · Coal · 1,200 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Solvay Rheinberg power station · Gas · 130 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Industrie-Kraftwerk · Coal · 79 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia
• Abfallentsorgungszentrum Asdonkshof · Waste · 20.8 MW · North Rhine-Westphalia

Location

Coordinates 51.579097, 6.68588 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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