Vitória power station is a 172.5 MW oil power station in Madeira, Portugal. It is operated by Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 130k homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 480 Portugal power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1980, it is around 46 years old — long-established. Its annual emissions of 284,274 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 66k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 2.6% of Portugal's electricity; the national grid averages 128 gCO₂/kWh (81.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_vitoria_portug.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100001000075; fuel: GEM GOGPT
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 Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira SA.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 32.6°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 #1 largest oil power plant of 2 in Portugal by capacity.
Portugal has 2 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 234 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 32.648, -16.9676 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Vitória power station is a 172.5 MW oil power plant in Madeira, Portugal, commissioned in 1980.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 129,522 homes (estimated).
Vitória power station is operated by Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira SA.
Vitória power station has measured emissions of about 284,274 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
