Iquitos Wärtsilä power station — Peru

Iquitos Wärtsilä power station is a 57.3 MW oil power plant in Loreto, Peru. It is operated by Electro Oriente SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 43k homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 40 Peru power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1993, it is around 33 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 0.2% of Peru's electricity; the national grid averages 238 gCO₂/kWh (63.6% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_iquitoswartsila_peru.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408911; fuel: GEM GOGPT

In context: how this plant compares

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.

Owner

Operated by Electro Oriente SA [100%].

Climate zone & how it works

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 3.7°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).

How it compares & nearby plants

Peru has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 57 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Iquitos Nueva power station · Gas · 77.7 MW · Loreto

Location

Coordinates -3.73626, -73.24373 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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