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Ischia di Castro A

Solar power plant in Latium, Italy. Approximate location 42.508, 11.697.

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Ischia di Castro A is a 12 MW solar power plant in Latium, Italy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,105 homes (estimated). It ranks #261 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 16.9% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

12MW installed capacity
5,105homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0068403.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Italy

EMMEZETA SOLAR PARK ROVIGO: 65 MW65EMMEZETA S…MdC Octopus: 57 MW57MdC OctopusSerenissima: 48 MW48SerenissimaMdC III+IV: 44 MW44MdC III+IVCellino San Marco: 43 MW43Cellino Sa…Vega Apulia: 40 MW40Vega ApuliaSant' Alberto: 35 MW35Sant' Albe…Fiumesanto: 33 MW33Fiumesanto

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.6°Cannual mean temp
1,731heating degree-days (base 18°C)
512cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
163 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 12 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 16 °CON: 11 °CND: 8 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 30% 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: 38/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (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 #45 largest solar power plant of 223 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 223 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,953 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 42.508, 11.697 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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