AUGUSTA C.LE is a 210 MW oil power station in Sicily, Italy. It is operated by ENEL. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 157,680 homes (estimated). It ranks #88 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 47,925 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 11,171 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 2.6% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002849.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by ENEL. All plants by this company →
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 37.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 63% 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: 25/100 — 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.
The #8 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.
Coordinates 37.2083, 15.1778 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
