HORTA MEDIO AMBIENTE is a 15 MW waste power plant in Galicia, Spain. It is operated by HORTA MEDIO AMBIENTE S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 20,510 homes (estimated). It ranks #629 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1006533.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by HORTA MEDIO AMBIENTE S.A..
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 19% above 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: 61/100 — 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 #12 largest waste power plant of 15 in Spain by capacity.
Spain has 15 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 388 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 42.8561, -7.1636 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
