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Rilhac-Lastours

Wind power plant in Limousin, France. Approximate location 45.6586, 1.1137.

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Rilhac-Lastours is a 2 MW wind power plant in Limousin, France. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,701 homes (estimated). It ranks #1687 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 8.2% of France's electricity; the national grid averages 41 gCO₂/kWh (94.9% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
1,701homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1025290.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in France

Salles-Curan: 87 MW87Salles-Cur…Épizon: 80 MW80ÉpizonGerminon: 75 MW75GerminonCormainville: 60 MW60Cormainvil…Murat-sur-Vèbre: 59 MW59Murat-sur-…Villesèque-des-Corbières: 55 MW55Villesèque…Allonnes: 52 MW52AllonnesGourgançon: 48 MW48Gourgançon

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.1°Cannual mean temp
2,547heating degree-days (base 18°C)
61cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
385 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 9 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 12 °CON: 7 °CND: 5 °CD19 °C

Heating degree-days here run 4% 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: 52/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #703 largest wind power plant of 721 in France by capacity.

France has 721 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 9,061 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 45.6586, 1.1137 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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