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Chambière power station

Other power plant in Lorraine, France. Approximate location 49.1293, 6.1836.

OtherLorraineFranceCO₂ reported

Chambière power station is a 102 MW other power station in Lorraine, France. It is operated by Usine d'électricité de Metz SAEML. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 76,437 homes (estimated). It ranks #97 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 146,610 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 34,175 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

102MW installed capacity
76,437homes powered (est.)
146,610t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-144.

146,610 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

34,175passenger cars driven for a year
19,120homes' yearly energy use
2,443,500tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in France

Chambière power station: 102 MW102Chambière …Lavera power station: 78 MW78Lavera pow…Arjowiggins Mill power station: 47 MW47Arjowiggin…VESTA Waste-to-Energy power station: 32 MW32VESTA Wast…

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

Owner

Operated by Usine d'électricité de Metz SAEML.

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.9°Cannual mean temp
2,963heating degree-days (base 18°C)
40cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
221 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 2 °CJF: 3 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 10 °CON: 5 °CND: 3 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 21% 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: 62/100 — 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 #1 largest other power plant of 4 in France by capacity.

France has 4 other power plants in this dataset, together about 259 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 49.1293, 6.1836 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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