Nuclear power plant in New Brunswick, Canada. Approximate location 45.0686, -66.4543.
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Point Lepreau is a 660 MW nuclear power station in New Brunswick, Canada. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,486,697 homes (estimated). It ranks #52 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 13.1% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0002076.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.1°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 84% 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: 91/100 — this site sits in the top 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 nuclear power plant of 6 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 6 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 14,254 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.0686, -66.4543 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
