Lucciana power station is a 231 MW oil power station in Corsica, France. It is operated by Electricité de France SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 173k homes (estimated). It ranks #72 of 2,216 France power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1992, it is around 34 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 310,674 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 72k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 1.8% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_lucciana_france.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408774; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 231 MW, Lucciana power station is well above the median oil plant in France (133 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. 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 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) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.5°N — 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.
The #6 largest oil power plant of 18 in France by capacity.
France has 18 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 5,920 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.52842, 9.447 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Lucciana power station is a 231 MW oil power plant in Corsica, France, commissioned in 1992.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 173,448 homes (estimated).
Lucciana power station is operated by Electricité de France SA [100%].
Lucciana power station has measured emissions of about 310,674 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
