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Waverley Wood II

Waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 52.3395, -1.4716.

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Waverley Wood II is a 2 MW waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LTD. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,303 homes (estimated). It ranks #2150 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
3,303homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000540.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in United Kingdom

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

Owner

Operated by ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LTD. All plants by this company →

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 52.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.5°Cannual mean temp
3,090heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
93 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 11 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 16 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 10 °CON: 6 °CND: 5 °CD16 °C

Heating degree-days here run 26% 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: 65/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #161 largest waste power plant of 329 in United Kingdom by capacity.

United Kingdom has 329 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 1,886 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 52.3395, -1.4716 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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