El Morell power station is a 150 MW oil power station in Catalonia, Spain. It is operated by Repsol SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #114 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 3.5% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_elmorell_spain.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408756; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 150 MW, El Morell power station is well above the median oil plant in Spain (67.3 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Repsol SA [100%].
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 41.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #12 largest oil power plant of 33 in Spain by capacity.
Spain has 33 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 6,078 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.1936, 1.2253 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
El Morell power station is a 150 MW oil power plant in Catalonia, Spain, commissioned in 1998.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 112,628 homes (estimated).
El Morell power station is operated by Repsol SA [100%].
