Gas power plant in Guyane, French Guiana. Approximate location 5.1636, -52.6702.
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Kourou is a 20 MW gas power plant in Guyane, French Guiana. It is operated by Électricité de France. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 22,525 homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 6 French Guiana power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 245 gCO₂/kWh (65.3% low-carbon) (2023).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023512.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 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 Électricité de France. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.2°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 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~8% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #2 largest gas power plant of 2 in French Guiana by capacity.
French Guiana has 2 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 92 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.1636, -52.6702 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
