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La Grecia

Biomass power plant in Choluteca, Honduras. Approximate location 13.2432, -87.3529.

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La Grecia is a 12 MW biomass power plant in Choluteca, Honduras. It is operated by Empresa Nacional De Energia Electrica. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 6.7% of Honduras's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).

12MW installed capacity
16,518homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029340.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in Honduras

Compania Azucarera Hondurena: 26 MW26Compania A…La Grecia: 12 MW12La GreciaTres Valles: 8 MW8Tres VallesAzulosa: 4 MW4Azulosa

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

Owner

Operated by Empresa Nacional De Energia Electrica. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 13.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.5°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,840cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
5 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 28 °CJF: 29 °CFM: 29 °CMA: 30 °CAM: 30 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 28 °CON: 28 °CND: 28 °CD30 °C

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.

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 #2 largest biomass power plant of 4 in Honduras by capacity.

Honduras has 4 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 50 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 13.2432, -87.3529 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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