Oil power plant in Pichincha, Ecuador. Approximate location -0.270816, -78.451134.
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Guangopolo II power station is a 52.4 MW oil power plant in Pichincha, Ecuador. It is operated by Corporación Nacional de Electricidad EP [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 39k homes (estimated). It ranks #21 of 34 Ecuador power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. 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 GOGPT_guangopoloii_ecuado.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408632; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 52.4 MW, Guangopolo II power station is below the median oil plant in Ecuador (96 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Corporación Nacional de Electricidad EP [100%].
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 0.3°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #10 largest oil power plant of 14 in Ecuador by capacity.
Ecuador has 14 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,207 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -0.270816, -78.451134 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Guangopolo II power station is a 52.4 MW oil power plant in Pichincha, Ecuador, commissioned in 2014.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 39,344 homes (estimated).
Guangopolo II power station is operated by Corporación Nacional de Electricidad EP [100%].
