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Nesle power station

Gas power plant in Picardie, France. Approximate location 49.7688, 2.9023.

GasPicardieFranceCO₂ reported

Nesle power station is a 48 MW gas power plant in Picardie, France. It is operated by Tereos Internacional SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 54,061 homes (estimated). It ranks #154 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 43,533 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 10,148 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 3.0% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

48MW installed capacity
54,061homes powered (est.)
43,533t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-166.

43,533 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

10,148passenger cars driven for a year
5,677homes' yearly energy use
725,550tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in France

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

Owner

Operated by Tereos Internacional SA. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.0°Cannual mean temp
2,891heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
77 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 4 °CFM: 6 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 15 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 11 °CON: 6 °CND: 4 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 18% above 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: 59/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #17 largest gas power plant of 21 in France by capacity.

France has 21 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 6,170 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 49.7688, 2.9023 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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