Biomass Crotone power station — Italy

Biomass Crotone power station is a 27 MW biomass power plant in Calabria, Italy. It is operated by EP New Energy Italia SRL. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 37k homes (estimated). It ranks #243 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 47,466 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 11k cars driven for a year. In context, biomass supplies about 5.9% 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 CT-245.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: Climate TRACE; fuel: Climate TRACE

In context: how this plant compares

At 27 MW, Biomass Crotone power station is below the median biomass plant in Italy (30 MW). 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.

47,466 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

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).

Key facts

Share of Italy biomass capacity

6.3% of 428 MW across 12 plants in this dataset

Calculated from the capacity and generation records in this dataset (WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0)).

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in Italy

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

Owner

Operated by EP New Energy Italia SRL.

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.1°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 57% 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.

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.

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion the leading environmental stress.

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #7 largest biomass power plant of 12 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 12 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 428 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• CENTRALE DI SCANDALE · Gas · 814 MW · Calabria
• Biomasse Italia power station · Biomass · 46 MW · Calabria
• TIMPAGRANDE · Hydro · 395 MW · Calabria
• MAGISANO · Hydro · 75 MW · Calabria
• SIMERI CRICHI · Gas · 885 MW · Calabria
• San Floro · Solar · 24 MW · Calabria

Location

Coordinates 39.1102, 17.0978 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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