Coal power plant in Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe. Approximate location 16.304873, -61.326223.
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Le Moule Power Station is a 102 MW coal power station in Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe. It is operated by Albioma SAS [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 128k homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 2 Guadeloupe power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 343,838 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 80k cars driven for a year.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_lemoule_guade.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
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).
Operated by Albioma SAS [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 16.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
Guadeloupe has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 102 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 16.304873, -61.326223 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Le Moule Power Station is a 102 MW coal power plant in Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe, commissioned in 1998.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 127,645 homes (estimated).
Le Moule Power Station is operated by Albioma SAS [100%].
Le Moule Power Station has measured emissions of about 343,838 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
