Waste power plant in Cortes, Honduras. Approximate location 15.5317, -88.023.
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Cerveceria is a 2 MW waste power plant in Cortes, Honduras. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,441 homes (estimated). It ranks #40 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029380.
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 15.5°N — 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.
Honduras has 1 waste power plant in this dataset, together about 2 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 15.5317, -88.023 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
