Wind power plant in Alberta, Canada. Approximate location 49.6933, -112.3292.
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Chin Chute is a 30 MW wind power plant in Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Suncor / EHN/ Enbridge. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 25,529 homes (estimated). It ranks #439 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 7.9% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0007754.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Suncor / EHN/ Enbridge. 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) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 49.7°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 82% 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: 90/100 — 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 #105 largest wind power plant of 241 in Canada by capacity.
Canada has 241 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 12,134 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 49.6933, -112.3292 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
