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Nurlu — France

Wind power plant in Picardie, France. Approximate location 50.004, 3.0158.

WindPicardieFranceOnshorePre Construction

Nurlu is a 8 MW wind power plant in Picardie, France. It ranks #1091 of 2,216 France power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 8.2% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

8MW installed capacity
2019Pre Construction

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1024732.

Data status

Known data

FacilityNurlu WRI
CountryFrance · Picardie WRI
Coordinates50.004, 3.0158 WRI
FuelWind WRI
MW installed capacity8 MW WRI GPPD; source record
OwnerRIVE Private Investment [100%] WRI
Commissioned2019 WRI
TechnologyOnshore WRI

Calculated from dataset

Capacity rank in country#1091 / 2216 calculated
Fuel-specific rank in country#575 / 721 calculated
Capacity vs country/fuel peers0.70× · 11.5 MW · n=721 calculated
Climate9.9°C · HDD 2,954 derived from coordinates
Environmental severityC3 · 28/100 derived from coordinates

Not available

GWh reported / yrNot available not in dataset
CO₂ emissionsnot applicable not applicable

Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.

Data provenance

The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 8 MW, Nurlu is below the median wind plant in France (11.5 MW). Technically it is described as Onshore. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Wind turbines convert moving air into electricity; output is variable and site-dependent, and modern turbines deliver some of the lowest-cost new generation on many grids.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #575 largest wind power plant of 721 in France by capacity.

France has 721 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 9,164 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 50.004, 3.0158 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

Frequently asked questions

What type of power plant is Nurlu?

Nurlu is a 8 MW wind power plant in Picardie, France, Pre Construction 2019.

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