Wind power plant in La Pampa, Argentina. Approximate location -37.4309, -64.716.
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GENERAL ACHA is a 2 MW wind power plant in La Pampa, Argentina. It is operated by COOPERATIVA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,531 homes (estimated). It ranks #224 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 12.2% 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 ARG0000182.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by COOPERATIVA. 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) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°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 37% 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: 35/100 — 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 #11 largest wind power plant of 12 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 12 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 212 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -37.4309, -64.716 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
