Oil power plant in Cienfuegos, Cuba. Approximate location 22.1589, -80.4552.
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Carlos De Cespedes Powerplant is a 382 MW oil power station in Cienfuegos, Cuba. It ranks #8 of 22 Cuba power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, oil supplies about 82.3% of Cuba's electricity; the national grid averages 643 gCO₂/kWh (4.0% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002019.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 382 MW, Carlos De Cespedes Powerplant is around the median oil plant in Cuba (370 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #7 largest oil power plant of 16 in Cuba by capacity.
Cuba has 16 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 5,165 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.1589, -80.4552 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Carlos De Cespedes Powerplant is a 382 MW oil power plant in Cienfuegos, Cuba, commissioned in 2018.
