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Zandvliet power station

Gas power plant in North Brabant, Belgium. Approximate location 51.3696, 4.2665.

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Zandvliet power station is a 386 MW gas power station in North Brabant, Belgium. It is operated by Zandvliet Power NV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 434,971 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 75 Belgium power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 240,186 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 55,987 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 21.5% of Belgium's electricity; the national grid averages 150 gCO₂/kWh (72.0% low-carbon) (2025).

386MW installed capacity
434,971homes powered (est.)
240,186t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-371.

240,186 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

55,987passenger cars driven for a year
31,323homes' yearly energy use
4,003,100tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Belgium

DROGENBOS TGV: 465 MW465DROGENBOS …HERDERSBRUG STEG: 465 MW465HERDERSBRU…Amercoeur 1 R TGV: 451 MW451Amercoeur …T-power Beringen: 422 MW422T-power Be…Marcinelle Energie (Carsid): 405 MW405Marcinelle…Zandvliet power station: 386 MW386Zandvliet …RINGVAART STEG: 357 MW357RINGVAART …SAINT-GHISLAIN STEG: 350 MW350SAINT-GHIS…

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

Owner

Operated by Zandvliet Power NV.

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 51.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.6°Cannual mean temp
2,710heating degree-days (base 18°C)
14cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
7 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 11 °CON: 7 °CND: 5 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 10% 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: 55/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #6 largest gas power plant of 21 in Belgium by capacity.

Belgium has 21 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 4,242 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 51.3696, 4.2665 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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