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GEMASA power station

Gas power plant in Andalusia, Spain. Approximate location 37.1841, -6.9039.

GasAndalusiaSpainCO₂ reported

GEMASA power station is a 28 MW gas power plant in Andalusia, Spain. It is operated by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 31,536 homes (estimated). It ranks #440 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 19,332 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 4,506 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 21.6% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).

28MW installed capacity
31,536homes powered (est.)
19,332t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-296.

19,332 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

4,506passenger cars driven for a year
2,521homes' yearly energy use
322,200tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Spain

BESOS GRUPO 5: 1,671 MW2kBESOS GRU…ARCOS DE LA FRONTERA GRUPO 1: 1,585 MW2kARCOS DE L…CARTAGENA GRUPO 1: 1,249 MW1kCARTAGENA …Cartagena (Escombreras) power station: 1,249 MW1kCartagena …CCC SAGUNTO GRUPO 2: 1,232 MW1kCCC SAGUNT…ESCOMBRERAS GRUPO 1: 1,199 MW1kESCOMBRERA…El Fangal power station: 1,199 MW1kEl Fangal …PALOS DE LA FRONTERA GRUPO 1: 1,167 MW1kPALOS DE L…

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

Owner

Operated by Compañía Española de Petróleos SA. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.1°Cannual mean temp
794heating degree-days (base 18°C)
826cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
17 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 14 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 20 °CON: 15 °CND: 12 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 68% 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: 24/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~2% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #48 largest gas power plant of 68 in Spain by capacity.

Spain has 68 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 29,070 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 37.1841, -6.9039 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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