Tavaux Works power station is a 141 MW oil power station in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. It is operated by Solvay NV [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 106k homes (estimated). It ranks #91 of 2,216 France power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. 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 GOGPT_tavauxworks_france.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000407652; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 141 MW, Tavaux Works power station is around the median oil plant in France (133 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. 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 Solvay NV [100%].
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 47.1°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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with humidity / wetness 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 #8 largest oil power plant of 18 in France by capacity.
France has 18 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 5,920 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.054693, 5.4086 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tavaux Works power station is a 141 MW oil power plant in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, commissioned in 2000.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 105,870 homes (estimated).
Tavaux Works power station is operated by Solvay NV [100%].
