Torrevaldaliga Nord power station — Italy

Torrevaldaliga Nord power station is a 1,980 MW coal power station in Latium, Italy. It ranks #5 of 489 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 1.4% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002969.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,980 MW, Torrevaldaliga Nord power station is well above the median coal plant in Italy (640 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #2 largest coal power plant of 16 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 16 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 12,942 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• TORREVALDALIGA South · Gas · 1,140 MW · Latium
• Viterbo KGAL · Solar · 10.9 MW · Latium
• Centauro · Solar · 8 MW · Latium
• Cassiopea · Solar · 24 MW · Latium
• MONTALTO (Alessandro Volta) · Gas · 3,446 MW · Latium
• MdC Octopus SE · Solar · 15 MW · Latium

Location

Coordinates 42.1269, 11.7583 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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