Solar power plant in Artigas, Uruguay. Approximate location -30.4214, -57.4574.
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ALTO CIELO is a 26 MW solar power plant in Artigas, Uruguay. It is operated by Solarpack [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11k homes (estimated). It ranks #34 of 73 Uruguay power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 5.1% of Uruguay's electricity; the national grid averages 80 gCO₂/kWh (97.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id URY0000834.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 26 MW for Alto Cielo PV Solar Plant, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: A2_MEDIUM_REVIEW - recommended action: manual_source_check - confidence: medium. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000807498); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 26 MW, ALTO CIELO is well above the median solar plant in Uruguay (11 MW). Technically it is described as PV. Solar PV converts sunlight directly into electricity with no moving parts or fuel; output varies by time of day and weather, so it pairs with storage or flexible backup.
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 Solarpack [100%].
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 30.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 79% below 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: 21/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.3% 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.
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.
The #3 largest solar power plant of 13 in Uruguay by capacity.
Uruguay has 13 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 261 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -30.4214, -57.4574 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
ALTO CIELO is a 26 MW source-record solar power plant in Artigas, Uruguay, commissioned in 2016.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 11,062 homes (estimated).
ALTO CIELO is operated by Solarpack [100%].
