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CEUTA 9 G-9

Oil power plant in Ceuta, Spain. Approximate location 35.89, -5.35.

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CEUTA 9 G-9 is a 12 MW oil power plant in Ceuta, Spain. It is operated by ENDESA GENERACION S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,634 homes (estimated). It ranks #690 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 3.5% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).

12MW installed capacity
8,634homes powered (est.)
2001commissioned (~25 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1006342.

~22,666 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

5,284passenger cars driven for a year
2,956homes' yearly energy use
377,775tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Spain

CT SANTURCE 2: 897 MW897CT SANTURC…GRANADILLA 1 GAS 1: 693 MW693GRANADILLA…BARRANCO DE TIRAJANA 7 VAPOR 3 (CC1): 646 MW646BARRANCO D…SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3: 564 MW564SON REUS 3…CT ESCOMBRERAS 5: 537 MW537CT ESCOMBR…JINAMAR 10 GAS 2: 234 MW234JINAMAR 10…MAHON 10 BURMEISTER N 2: 195 MW195MAHON 10 …PUNTA GRANDE 19 DIESEL 11: 185 MW185PUNTA GRAN…

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

Owner

Operated by ENDESA GENERACION S.A.. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 35.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.0°Cannual mean temp
674heating degree-days (base 18°C)
682cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
76 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 12 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 19 °CON: 16 °CND: 14 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 73% 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: 23/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #27 largest oil power plant of 27 in Spain by capacity.

Spain has 27 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 4,717 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 35.89, -5.35 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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