Macchiareddu power station is a 23 MW biomass power plant in Sardinia, Italy. It is operated by PowerCrop Macchiareddu SRL. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 31,385 homes (estimated). It ranks #204 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 5.9% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-247.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PowerCrop Macchiareddu SRL.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.2°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 55% 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: 27/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
The #6 largest biomass power plant of 10 in Italy by capacity.
Italy has 10 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 347 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.2236, 8.9851 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
