Hydro power plant in Tachira, Venezuela. Approximate location 7.8535, -71.7146.
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Leanardo Ruiz Pineda (San Agaton) is a 300 MW hydro power station in Tachira, Venezuela. It ranks #29 of 59 Venezuela power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1986, it is around 40 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 91.1% of Venezuela's electricity; the national grid averages 86 gCO₂/kWh (91.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018657.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 300 MW, Leanardo Ruiz Pineda (San Agaton) is below the median hydro plant in Venezuela (514 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #6 largest hydro power plant of 9 in Venezuela by capacity.
Venezuela has 9 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 18,979 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 7.8535, -71.7146 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Leanardo Ruiz Pineda (San Agaton) is a 300 MW hydro power plant in Tachira, Venezuela, commissioned in 1986.
