Biomass power plant in Biobio, Chile. Approximate location -37.2092, -73.2222.
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Arauco is a 24 MW biomass power plant in Biobio, Chile. It is operated by ARAUCO BIOENERGIA S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 33,037 homes (estimated). It ranks #152 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 5.7% of Chile's electricity; the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0003002.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by ARAUCO BIOENERGIA S.A.. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.2°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 5% 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: 52/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.
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 #6 largest biomass power plant of 22 in Chile by capacity.
Chile has 22 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 384 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -37.2092, -73.2222 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
