Tarragona Refinery power station is a 85 MW oil power plant in Catalonia, Spain. It is operated by Repsol SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 64k homes (estimated). It ranks #150 of 899 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 2,033,426 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 474k 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 GOGPT_tarragonarefinery_spain.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408746; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 85 MW, Tarragona Refinery power station is well above the median oil plant in Spain (67.3 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.
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 Repsol SA [100%].
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 41.2°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 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 #13 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 41.1765, 1.224 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tarragona Refinery power station is a 85 MW oil power plant in Catalonia, Spain, commissioned in 2000.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 63,822 homes (estimated).
Tarragona Refinery power station is operated by Repsol SA [100%].
Tarragona Refinery power station has measured emissions of about 2,033,426 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
