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Wolverhampton EfW

Waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. Approximate location 52.5969, -2.125.

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Wolverhampton EfW is a 8 MW waste power plant in England, United Kingdom. It is operated by MES Environmental (CNIM Group). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11,012 homes (estimated). It ranks #1026 of 2,751 United Kingdom power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 4,109 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS) are equivalent to about 958 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 217 gCO₂/kWh (64.4% low-carbon) (2025).

8MW installed capacity
11,012homes powered (est.)
4,109t CO₂ / yr (EU ETS)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GBR0000814.

4,109 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

958passenger cars driven for a year
536homes' yearly energy use
68,483tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to EU ETS.

Capacity vs largest waste plants in United Kingdom

Runcorn EfW: 81 MW81Runcorn EfWRiverside Resource Recovery Facility (RRRF): 72 MW72Riverside …Edmonton: 60 MW60EdmontonAllington EFW: 51 MW51Allington …Fibrepower Slough: 50 MW50Fibrepower…K3 CHP Facility (Kemsley EfW): 50 MW50K3 CHP Fac…Wilton 11 EfW: 49 MW49Wilton 11 …Lakeside EfW: 37 MW37Lakeside E…

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

Owner

Operated by MES Environmental (CNIM Group). 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 52.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.2°Cannual mean temp
3,201heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
136 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 7 °CAM: 11 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 16 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 13 °CSO: 10 °CON: 6 °CND: 5 °CD16 °C

Heating degree-days here run 30% 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: 68/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #55 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 52.5969, -2.125 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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