Wind power plant in Coquimbo, Chile. Approximate location -31.3136, -71.6011.
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CANELA II is a 60 MW wind power plant in Coquimbo, Chile. It is operated by ENDESAECO S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 51,058 homes (estimated). It ranks #96 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 13.1% 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 CHL0002004.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by ENDESAECO S.A.. All plants by this company →
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 31.3°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 52% 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: 29/100 — 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.
The #7 largest wind power plant of 18 in Chile by capacity.
Chile has 18 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 897 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -31.3136, -71.6011 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
