Le Port Est power station is a 219.6 MW oil power station in Réunion, Réunion. It is operated by Electricité de France SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 165k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 1 Réunion power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_leportest_runion.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408167; fuel: GEM GOGPT
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.
Operated by Electricité de France SA [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 20.9°S — 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 a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine 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.
Réunion has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 220 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -20.9305, 55.3268 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Le Port Est power station is a 219.6 MW oil power plant in Réunion, Réunion, commissioned in 2014.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 164,888 homes (estimated).
Le Port Est power station is operated by Electricité de France SA [100%].
