Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant is a 260 MW nuclear power station in Vercelli, Italy. It is operated by Societa Gestione Impanti Nucleari SpA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 586k homes (estimated). It ranks #98 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1965, it is around 61 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 0.0% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_enricofermi_italy.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: GEM GNPT
At 260 MW, Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant is around the median nuclear plant in Italy (260 MW). Technically it is described as pressurized water reactor. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.
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 Societa Gestione Impanti Nucleari SpA [100%].
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.2°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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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 #3 largest nuclear power plant of 5 in Italy by capacity.
Italy has 5 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 3,448 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.1833, 8.2773 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant is a 260 MW nuclear power plant in Vercelli, Italy, commissioned in 1965.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 585,668 homes (estimated).
Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant is operated by Societa Gestione Impanti Nucleari SpA [100%].
