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Cassano I

Solar power plant in Piedmont, Italy. Approximate location 44.7583, 8.8363.

SolarPiedmontItalyCO₂ reported

Cassano I is a 9 MW solar power plant in Piedmont, Italy. It is operated by Roquette Italia SpA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,744 homes (estimated). It ranks #286 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 96,189 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 22,422 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 16.9% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

9MW installed capacity
3,744homes powered (est.)
96,189t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0064278.

96,189 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

22,422passenger cars driven for a year
12,544homes' yearly energy use
1,603,150tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Italy

EMMEZETA SOLAR PARK ROVIGO: 65 MW65EMMEZETA S…MdC Octopus: 57 MW57MdC OctopusSerenissima: 48 MW48SerenissimaMdC III+IV: 44 MW44MdC III+IVCellino San Marco: 43 MW43Cellino Sa…Vega Apulia: 40 MW40Vega ApuliaSant' Alberto: 35 MW35Sant' Albe…Fiumesanto: 33 MW33Fiumesanto

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

Owner

Operated by Roquette Italia SpA.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.3°Cannual mean temp
2,386heating degree-days (base 18°C)
312cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
320 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 8 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 19 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 13 °CON: 7 °CND: 4 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 3% 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: 49/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #68 largest solar power plant of 223 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 223 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,953 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.7583, 8.8363 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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