VESTA Waste-to-Energy power station is a 32 MW waste power plant in Haute-Normandie, France. It is operated by Syndicat Mixte d'Élimination des Déchets Arrondissement de Rouen. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 44k homes (estimated). It ranks #240 of 2,216 France power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 584,466 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 136k cars driven for a year. In context, 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-173.
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: Climate TRACE source-record capacity (modelled/legacy); fuel: facility name / public source type explicitly indicates waste-to-energy or municipal waste facility
Waste-to-energy plants burn municipal solid waste to generate electricity and heat, cutting landfill volume while recovering energy from residual waste.
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).
Operated by Syndicat Mixte d'Élimination des Déchets Arrondissement de Rouen.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.4°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 9% above 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: 54/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), 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.
France has 1 waste power plant in this dataset, together about 32 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.4291, 1.0315 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
VESTA Waste-to-Energy power station is a 32 MW source-record waste power plant in Haute-Normandie, France.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 44,050 homes (estimated).
VESTA Waste-to-Energy power station is operated by Syndicat Mixte d'Élimination des Déchets Arrondissement de Rouen.
VESTA Waste-to-Energy power station has measured emissions of about 584,466 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
