Oil power plant in New Brunswick, Canada. Approximate location 47.6149086, -64.9122511.
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Sainte Rose power station is a 100 MW oil power station in New Brunswick, Canada. It is operated by New Brunswick Power Corp [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 75k homes (estimated). It ranks #291 of 1,211 Canada power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1991, it is around 35 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 1.2% 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 GOGPT_sainterose_canada.
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 · 2026 · L100000408871; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 100 MW, Sainte Rose power station is around the median oil plant in Canada (109 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by New Brunswick Power Corp [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 47.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 thermal cycling 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 #6 largest oil power plant of 9 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 9 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 2,463 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.6149086, -64.9122511 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Sainte Rose power station is a 100 MW oil power plant in New Brunswick, Canada, commissioned in 1991.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 75,085 homes (estimated).
Sainte Rose power station is operated by New Brunswick Power Corp [100%].
