Rijeka Thermal Power Plant Croatia is a 320 MW oil power station in Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia. It is operated by HEP-Proizvodnja doo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 240k homes (estimated). It ranks #8 of 28 Croatia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1978, it is around 48 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 23,365 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 5.4k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.0% of Croatia's electricity; the national grid averages 158 gCO₂/kWh (76.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0044822.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100001025952); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as Steam. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
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 HEP-Proizvodnja doo.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.3°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 5% 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: 48/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), 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 #2 largest oil power plant of 2 in Croatia by capacity.
Croatia has 2 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 740 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 45.2862, 14.5207 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Rijeka Thermal Power Plant Croatia is a 320 MW source-record oil power plant in Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia, commissioned in 1978.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 240,274 homes (estimated).
Rijeka Thermal Power Plant Croatia is operated by HEP-Proizvodnja doo.
Rijeka Thermal Power Plant Croatia has measured emissions of about 23,365 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
