Brindisi Sud power station is a 2,640 MW coal power station in Apulia, Italy. It ranks #2 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. 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 WRI1002855.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,980 MW for Brindisi Sud power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 2,640 MW, Brindisi Sud power station is well above the median coal plant in Italy (640 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.
The #1 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 40.5632, 18.0318 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Brindisi Sud power station is a 2,640 MW coal power plant in Apulia, Italy, commissioned in 1992.
