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CAPRIATI

Hydro power plant in Campania, Italy. Approximate location 41.4686, 14.1454.

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CAPRIATI is a 113 MW hydro power station in Campania, Italy. Based on reported annual generation of 30 GWh, it can supply roughly 8,571 homes. It ranks #126 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 15.8% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

113MW installed capacity
30GWh reported / yr
8,571homes powered

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002859.

Reported generation trend

2015: 49 GWh20152016: 37 GWh20162017: 30 GWh201749 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.6°Cannual mean temp
2,484heating degree-days (base 18°C)
166cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
725 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 13 °CON: 8 °CND: 5 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 1% above 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: 50/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #37 largest hydro power plant of 58 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 58 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 13,384 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.4686, 14.1454 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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