Zolling power station is a 528 MW biomass power station in Bavaria, Germany. It ranks #83 of 1,442 Germany power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 1,162,803 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 271k cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 10.1% 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 WRI1006154.
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capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 528 MW, Zolling power station is well above the median biomass plant in Germany (19.7 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
The #1 largest biomass power plant of 73 in Germany by capacity.
Germany has 73 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 2,477 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 48.4554, 11.7995 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Zolling power station is a 528 MW biomass power plant in Bavaria, Germany, Pre Construction 1986.
Zolling power station has measured emissions of about 1,162,803 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
