SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3 is a 564 MW oil power station in Balearic Islands, Spain. It is operated by GAS Y ELECTRICIDAD GENERACION S.A.U. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 423k homes (estimated). It ranks #53 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 627,659 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 146k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 3.5% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1007932.
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 564 MW, SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3 is well above the median oil plant in Spain (67 MW). 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 GAS Y ELECTRICIDAD GENERACION S.A.U.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.6°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 51% 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: 29/100 — 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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion 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 #5 largest oil power plant of 33 in Spain by capacity.
Spain has 33 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 6,078 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.65, 2.6807 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3 is a 564 MW source-record oil power plant in Balearic Islands, Spain, commissioned in 2000.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 423,333 homes (estimated).
SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3 is operated by GAS Y ELECTRICIDAD GENERACION S.A.U.
SON REUS 3 TURBINA DE GAS N 3 has measured emissions of about 627,659 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
