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Allemant

Biomass power plant in Picardie, France. Approximate location 49.4624, 3.4535.

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Allemant is a 1 MW biomass power plant in Picardie, France. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,789 homes (estimated). It ranks #1908 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.8% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

1MW installed capacity
1,789homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1025560.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in France

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

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.0°Cannual mean temp
2,904heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
114 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 4 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 18% 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: 60/100 — 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 #125 largest biomass power plant of 158 in France by capacity.

France has 158 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 1,127 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 49.4624, 3.4535 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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