SPEM Pointe power station is a 46 MW oil power plant in Pays de la Loire, France. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 34,539 homes (estimated). It ranks #158 of 2,188 France power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 129,062 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 30,084 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 1.8% 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 CT-149.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
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 47.3°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 14% 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: 45/100 — 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 #9 largest oil power plant of 12 in France by capacity.
France has 12 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 4,752 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.3058, -2.1382 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
