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MAGISANO

Hydro power plant in Calabria, Italy. Approximate location 39.0095, 16.6206.

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MAGISANO is a 75 MW hydro power plant in Calabria, Italy. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated). It ranks #152 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 15.8% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

75MW installed capacity
75,085homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1021318.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Italy

ENTRACQUE_CHRO: 1,064 MW1kENTRACQUE_…PRESENZANO: 1,005 MW1kPRESENZANORONCOVALGRANDE: 1,000 MW1kRONCOVALGR…EDOLO: 950 MW950EDOLOGROSIO: 655 MW655GROSIOS.FIORANO: 544 MW544S.FIORANOANAPO C.LE: 500 MW500ANAPO C.LES.GIACOMO: 490 MW490S.GIACOMO

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.5°Cannual mean temp
1,201heating degree-days (base 18°C)
675cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
168 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 10 °CJF: 10 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 18 °CON: 14 °CND: 11 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 51% 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: 29/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #51 largest hydro power plant of 58 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 58 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 13,384 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 39.0095, 16.6206 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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