Bois-Rouge power station is a 108 MW coal power station in Réunion, France. It is operated by Albioma SAS [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 135k homes (estimated). It ranks #109 of 2,216 France power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 0.3% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_boisrouge_franc.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 108 MW, Bois-Rouge power station is below the median coal plant in France (540 MW). Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Albioma SAS [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen As) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 20.9°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
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.
The #13 largest coal power plant of 14 in France by capacity.
France has 14 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 7,595 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -20.913831, 55.636348 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Bois-Rouge power station is a 108 MW coal power plant in Réunion, France, commissioned in 1992.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 135,154 homes (estimated).
Bois-Rouge power station is operated by Albioma SAS [100%].
