PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES is a 15 MW waste power plant in Andalusia, Spain. It is operated by PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21k homes (estimated). It ranks #660 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. Its annual emissions of 2,787 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 650 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1007810.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 15 MW, PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES is around the median waste plant in Spain (16 MW). Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
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).
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES S.A..
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 38.2°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 40% 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: 33/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #12 largest waste power plant of 18 in Spain by capacity.
Spain has 18 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 628 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 38.207, -3.5102 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES is a 15 MW source-record waste power plant in Andalusia, Spain, commissioned in 2001.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 20,648 homes (estimated).
PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES is operated by PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES S.A..
PROCESOS ECOLOGICOS VILCHES has measured emissions of about 2,787 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
