PROVENCE 5 is a 595 MW coal power station in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. It is operated by Energetický a průmyslový holding AS. Based on reported annual generation of 1,215 GWh, it can supply roughly 347,228 homes. It ranks #31 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 137,470 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 32,044 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 0.3% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002760.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Energetický a průmyslový holding AS. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.5°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 23% 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: 41/100 — 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.
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 #3 largest coal power plant of 5 in France by capacity.
France has 5 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 3,575 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 43.4672, 5.4875 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
