Butoni is a 10 MW wind power plant in Western, Fiji. It is operated by Fiji Electricity Authority. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,594 homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 12 Fiji power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 0.0% of Fiji's electricity; the national grid averages 278 gCO₂/kWh (63.5% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061467.
Operated by Fiji Electricity Authority. All plants by this company →
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 18.1°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 100% 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: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
Fiji has 1 wind power plant in this dataset, together about 10 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -18.1129, 177.5057 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
