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JUAN PABLO TERRA

Wind power plant in Artigas, Uruguay. Approximate location -30.409, -56.6401.

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JUAN PABLO TERRA is a 67 MW wind power plant in Artigas, Uruguay. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 57,185 homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 73 Uruguay power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 40.6% of Uruguay's electricity; the national grid averages 80 gCO₂/kWh (97.8% low-carbon) (2025).

67MW installed capacity
57,185homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id URY0000861.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Uruguay

PAMPA: 142 MW142PAMPACOLONIA ARIAS: 70 MW70COLONIA AR…VALENTINES: 70 MW70VALENTINESJUAN PABLO TERRA: 67 MW67JUAN PABLO…PARQUE EÓLICO ARTILLEROS: 65 MW65PARQUE EÓL…PERALTA I GCEE: 59 MW59PERALTA I …PERALTA II GCEE: 59 MW59PERALTA II…PARQUE EÓLICO CARAPÉ I: 51 MW51PARQUE EÓL…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 30.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

19.1°Cannual mean temp
549heating degree-days (base 18°C)
936cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
139 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 23 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 13 °CJJ: 13 °CJA: 15 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 19 °CON: 22 °CND: 24 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 78% 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: 21/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #4 largest wind power plant of 39 in Uruguay by capacity.

Uruguay has 39 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 1,382 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -30.409, -56.6401 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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