Hydro power plant in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Approximate location -5.3392, 151.1341.
HydroWest New BritainPapua New Guinea
Lake Hargy is a 2 MW hydro power plant in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is operated by PNG Power Limited. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,501 homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 15 Papua New Guinea power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 21.1% of Papua New Guinea's electricity; the national grid averages 514 gCO₂/kWh (23.7% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022421.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PNG Power Limited. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 5.3°S — 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.
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 #5 largest hydro power plant of 6 in Papua New Guinea by capacity.
Papua New Guinea has 6 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 165 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -5.3392, 151.1341 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
