Oil power plant in Pichincha, Ecuador. Approximate location -0.2299, -78.525.
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Gualberto Hernandez is a 34 MW oil power plant in Pichincha, Ecuador. It is operated by EEQ SA. Based on reported annual generation of 142 GWh, it can supply roughly 40,628 homes. It ranks #13 of 22 Ecuador power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 17.9% of Ecuador's electricity; the national grid averages 159 gCO₂/kWh (79.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018607.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by EEQ SA.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 0.2°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 53% 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: 28/100 — 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.
The #5 largest oil power plant of 6 in Ecuador by capacity.
Ecuador has 6 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 468 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -0.2299, -78.525 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
