Paroseni power station is a 150 MW coal power station in Hunedoara, Romania. It is operated by SC Complex Energetic Hunedoara. Based on reported annual generation of 268 GWh, it can supply roughly 77k homes. It ranks #38 of 97 Romania power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1964, it is around 62 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its annual emissions of 201,325 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 47k cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 13.4% of Romania's electricity; the national grid averages 251 gCO₂/kWh (67.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019123.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000103298); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 150 MW, Paroseni power station is below the median coal plant in Romania (262 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
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).
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SC Complex Energetic Hunedoara.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.4°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 59% 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: 83/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness 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 #13 largest coal power plant of 20 in Romania by capacity.
Romania has 20 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 9,517 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.3647, 23.261 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Paroseni power station is a 150 MW source-record coal power plant in Hunedoara, Romania, commissioned in 1964.
Paroseni power station generates about 268 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 76,514 homes.
Paroseni power station is operated by SC Complex Energetic Hunedoara.
Paroseni power station has measured emissions of about 201,325 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
