Solar power plant in Ontario, Canada. Approximate location 42.855, -80.3607.
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13th Side Road is a 10 MW solar power plant in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by Skypower Ltd / Sunedison. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,042 homes (estimated). It ranks #751 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 1.6% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0007595.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Skypower Ltd / Sunedison. All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.9°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 46% 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: 78/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).
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.
The #104 largest solar power plant of 143 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 143 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,827 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.855, -80.3607 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
