LAS SALINAS 12 DIESEL 9 is a 72 MW oil power plant in Canary Islands, Spain. It is operated by UNION ELECTRICA DE CANARIAS GENERACION S.A.U.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 54k homes (estimated). It ranks #171 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2005, it is around 21 years old — relatively modern. Its annual emissions of 468,081 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 109k 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 WRI1006611.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000408751); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 72 MW, LAS SALINAS 12 DIESEL 9 is around the median oil plant in Spain (67 MW). 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 UNION ELECTRICA DE CANARIAS GENERACION S.A.U.. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.5°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 96% 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: 15/100 — 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 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 #16 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 28.5004, -13.8627 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
LAS SALINAS 12 DIESEL 9 is a 72 MW source-record oil power plant in Canary Islands, Spain, commissioned in 2005.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 54,136 homes (estimated).
LAS SALINAS 12 DIESEL 9 is operated by UNION ELECTRICA DE CANARIAS GENERACION S.A.U..
LAS SALINAS 12 DIESEL 9 has measured emissions of about 468,081 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
