Gela Biorefinery power station is a 210 MW oil power station in Siciliy, Italy. It is operated by Eni Rewind SpA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 158k homes (estimated). It ranks #112 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1962, it is around 64 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its annual emissions of 211,194 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 49k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 2.6% 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 GOGPT_gelabiorefinery_italy.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408801; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 210 MW, Gela Biorefinery power station is around the median oil plant in Italy (210 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. 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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Eni Rewind SpA [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 37.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 63% 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: 25/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 #9 largest oil power plant of 15 in Italy by capacity.
Italy has 15 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 9,157 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 37.0546, 14.2769 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gela Biorefinery power station is a 210 MW oil power plant in Siciliy, Italy, commissioned in 1962.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 157,680 homes (estimated).
Gela Biorefinery power station is operated by Eni Rewind SpA [100%].
Gela Biorefinery power station has measured emissions of about 211,194 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
