Power plant · North Holland, Netherlands

Centrale Hemweg

Centrale Hemweg is a power plant in North Holland, Netherlands, with 440 MW of capacity, owned by Vattenfall AB.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	North Holland	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Location	Netherlands	EU Union Registry public data · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	Petroleumhavenweg 1, 1041 AB AMSTERDAM	EU Union Registry public data · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Operating	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1994	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Owner	Vattenfall AB (100%, group)	Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages · record · Facts only, each linked to its page · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Vattenfall Power Generation Netherlands B.V.	EU Union Registry public data · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Capacity	440 MW (capacity stated by the owner)	Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages · record · Facts only, each linked to its page · checked 24 Oct 2026
Technology	Natural gas	Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages · record · Facts only, each linked to its page · checked 24 Oct 2026
Activity	Combustion of fuels	EU Union Registry public data · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Verified emissions	639,359 tCO2e (in 2025)	EU Union Registry public data · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	52.4040, 4.8460	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN) · CC BY 4.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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Also recorded as

2 sources record Centrale Hemweg; this page joins their facts, each with its own source. Links to any of the records lead here. How records are matched.

Name in the source	Identifier	Source	Matched on
Centrale Hemweg	asset:eic:49W000000000045Y	JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN)	—
Vattenfall Centrale Hemweg	asset:eu-ets:nl-184	EU Union Registry public data	Same name, coordinates and operator

How it compares

Centrale Hemweg is the 3rd-largest of 216 power plants in North Holland and the 16th-largest of 2,153 in the Netherlands by capacity; its 440 MW is 1.2% of the 37,557 MW we hold for the Netherlands. Ranks and totals cover the power plants in our data that report their capacity, not every one in existence. Power plants planned, permitted or under construction are ranked apart.

Within	Rank	Total	Share
North Holland	3rd of 216	3,450 MW	13%
Netherlands	16th of 2,153	37,557 MW	1.2%
All power plants in our data	922nd of 12,032	1,190,447 MW	<0.1%

Timeline

Dated facts about this power plant from its sources, oldest first.

1994Started operating
2025Verified emissions: 639,359 tCO2e

Nearby

Within 50 km of this power plant: 639 permit notices, 95 substations, 90 data centers, 63 CO2 emitters (36 operating) and 2 AI supercomputers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Substation omgevingsvergunning decision, Amsterdam (gmb-2025-182730)	Permit notice	—	—	0.1 km
Substation omgevingsvergunning decision, Amsterdam (gmb-2025-178571)	Permit notice	—	—	0.1 km
150 kV Hemweg	Substation	—	—	0.2 km
Substation omgevingsvergunning application, Amsterdam (gmb-2026-234194)	Permit notice	—	—	0.3 km
Vattenfall Centrale Hemweg	CO2 emitter	639,359 tCO2e	—	0.4 km
Gyro Center	Data center	—	—	0.4 km
Interxion AMS1 - AMS4	Data center	—	—	0.5 km
Databarn Amsterdam	Data center	—	—	0.9 km
150 kV substation (OSM way/27130532)	Substation	—	—	1.9 km

Owner, operator and place

Vattenfall ABOwner · 100%
Vattenfall Power Generation Netherlands B.V.Operator
Power plants in North Holland, Netherlands243
Power plants in the Netherlands2,510
The Netherlands: country profile
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NUON Windpark Wieringermeer58.8 MW
Biomass Amsterdam (Aeb Bio-energiecentrale)39.6 MW
ASR Windpark Wieringermeer38.5 MW

All 243 power plants in North Holland, Netherlands

Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
European Commission, Union Registry. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0.
JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), European Commission, Joint Research Centre. JRC Open Power Plants Database (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), CC BY 4.0.
Bundesnetzagentur, Marktstammdatenregister. Marktstammdatenregister, DL-DE-BY-2.0.
Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages. Dutch power station owners' and operators' pages, Facts only, each linked to its page.
Officiële Bekendmakingen. Officiële Bekendmakingen, CC0 1.0.
OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass). OpenStreetMap power infrastructure (Overpass), ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Planning Inspectorate: National Infrastructure Projects, Open Government Licence v3.0.
RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer. RVO SDE(+)(+) projecten in beheer and SDE viewer, Free reuse, no attribution required.