Brindisi Nord power station is a 640 MW coal power station in Apulia, Italy. It is operated by Edipower SpA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 801k homes (estimated). It ranks #58 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1974, it is around 52 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its modelled annual emissions are 3,606,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 841k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 1.4% 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 WRI1002854.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000102841); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 640 MW, Brindisi Nord power station is around the median coal plant in Italy (640 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Edipower SpA. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.6°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 53% 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: 28/100 — 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.
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 a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine 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 #8 largest coal power plant of 16 in Italy by capacity.
Italy has 16 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 12,942 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.6432, 17.9802 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Brindisi Nord power station is a 640 MW source-record coal power plant in Apulia, Italy, commissioned in 1974.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 800,914 homes (estimated).
Brindisi Nord power station is operated by Edipower SpA.
Brindisi Nord power station has modelled emissions of about 3,606,400 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
