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Lavera power station

Other power plant in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. Approximate location 43.3912, 4.9969.

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Lavera power station is a 78 MW other power plant in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. It is operated by COGETHERM. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 58,566 homes (estimated). It ranks #119 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 93,812 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 21,868 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

78MW installed capacity
58,566homes powered (est.)
93,812t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-156.

93,812 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

21,868passenger cars driven for a year
12,234homes' yearly energy use
1,563,533tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in France

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

Owner

Operated by COGETHERM. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.1°Cannual mean temp
1,545heating degree-days (base 18°C)
507cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
10 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 17 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 16 °CON: 11 °CND: 8 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 35/100 — 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.

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 #2 largest other power plant of 4 in France by capacity.

France has 4 other power plants in this dataset, together about 259 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.3912, 4.9969 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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