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CALLE CALLE

Oil power plant in Los Lagos, Chile. Approximate location -39.7999, -73.1891.

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CALLE CALLE is a 13 MW oil power plant in Los Lagos, Chile. It is operated by SAGESA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 9,761 homes (estimated). It ranks #187 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 0.6% of Chile's electricity; the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).

13MW installed capacity
9,761homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0000093.

~25,623 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

5,973passenger cars driven for a year
3,342homes' yearly energy use
427,050tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Chile

NUEVA RENCA: 370 MW370NUEVA RENCAQUINTERO: 255 MW255QUINTEROYUNGAY: 199 MW199YUNGAYCARDONES: 152 MW152CARDONESSANTA LIDIA: 138 MW138SANTA LIDIALOS VIENTOS: 131 MW131LOS VIENTOSLOS ESPINOS: 124 MW124LOS ESPINOSOLIVOS: 115 MW115OLIVOS

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by SAGESA. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 39.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

10.5°Cannual mean temp
2,741heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
222 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 15 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 9 °CMJ: 7 °CJJ: 6 °CJA: 7 °CAS: 8 °CSO: 10 °CON: 12 °CND: 14 °CD15 °C

Heating degree-days here run 12% 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: 56/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #33 largest oil power plant of 73 in Chile by capacity.

Chile has 73 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 2,931 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -39.7999, -73.1891 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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