Granadilla power station is a 749 MW oil power station in Tenerife, Spain. It is operated by Endesa SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 562k homes (estimated). It ranks #45 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1990, it is around 36 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 1,901,268 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 443k cars driven for a year. 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_granadilla_spain.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408754; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 749 MW, Granadilla power station is well above the median oil plant in Spain (67.3 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). 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 Endesa SA [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.1°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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt 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 #2 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 28.12218, -16.573048 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Granadilla power station is a 749 MW oil power plant in Tenerife, Spain, commissioned in 1990.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 562,392 homes (estimated).
Granadilla power station is operated by Endesa SA [100%].
Granadilla power station has measured emissions of about 1,901,268 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
