Hydro power plant in Chimborazo, Ecuador. Approximate location -1.7167, -78.7667.
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Calope is a 18 MW hydro power plant in Chimborazo, Ecuador. It is operated by Enermax. Based on reported annual generation of 90 GWh, it can supply roughly 25,714 homes. It ranks #19 of 22 Ecuador power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 77.9% of Ecuador's electricity; the national grid averages 159 gCO₂/kWh (79.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018594.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Enermax.
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 1.7°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 31% 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: 69/100 — 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.
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 #7 largest hydro power plant of 10 in Ecuador by capacity.
Ecuador has 10 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 3,254 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -1.7167, -78.7667 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
