Hydro power plant in Merida, Venezuela. Approximate location 7.747, -71.4668.
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Fabricio Ojeda (La Vueltosa) Hydroelectric Power Plant Venezuela is a 514 MW hydro power station in Merida, Venezuela. It ranks #13 of 59 Venezuela power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 91.1% of Venezuela's electricity; the national grid averages 86 gCO₂/kWh (91.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061136.
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 514 MW, Fabricio Ojeda (La Vueltosa) Hydroelectric Power Plant Venezuela is around the median hydro plant in Venezuela (514 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #5 largest hydro power plant of 9 in Venezuela by capacity.
Venezuela has 9 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 18,979 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 7.747, -71.4668 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Fabricio Ojeda (La Vueltosa) Hydroelectric Power Plant Venezuela is a 514 MW hydro power plant in Merida, Venezuela, commissioned in 2011.
