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ASSEMINI

Oil power plant in Sardinia, Italy. Approximate location 39.2269, 8.9972.

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ASSEMINI is a 177 MW oil power station in Sardinia, Italy. It is operated by Italy Ministry of Economy and Finance. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 132,901 homes (estimated). It ranks #94 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 2.6% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

177MW installed capacity
132,901homes powered (est.)
1992commissioned (~34 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002848.

~348,867 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

81,321passenger cars driven for a year
45,496homes' yearly energy use
5,814,450tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Italy

PORTO TOLLE: 2,640 MW3kPORTO TOLLETURBIGO: 1,569 MW2kTURBIGOPIOMBINO TERMICA: 1,280 MW1kPIOMBINO T…ROSSANO TE: 1,200 MW1kROSSANO TESAN FILIPPO DEL MELA: 866 MW866SAN FILIPP…Portoscuso: 320 MW320PortoscusoLIVORNO MARZOCCO: 310 MW310LIVORNO MA…AUGUSTA C.LE: 210 MW210AUGUSTA C.…

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

Owner

Operated by Italy Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.9°Cannual mean temp
1,100heating degree-days (base 18°C)
711cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
34 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 10 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 19 °CON: 14 °CND: 11 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 55% below 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: 27/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #9 largest oil power plant of 13 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 13 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 9,000 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.2269, 8.9972 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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