Hydro power plant in Neuquen, Argentina. Approximate location -39.2577, -68.7483.
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EL CHOCON is a 1,200 MW hydro power station in Neuquen, Argentina. It is operated by H. EL CHOCON SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,201,371 homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1975, it is around 51 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 17.1% of Argentina's electricity; the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000255.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by H. EL CHOCON SA. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 39.3°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 10% 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: 46/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #3 largest hydro power plant of 50 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 50 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 10,000 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -39.2577, -68.7483 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
