Lipor - Valongo is a 3 MW waste power plant in Porto, Portugal. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,579 homes (estimated). It ranks #335 of 469 Portugal power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 128 gCO₂/kWh (81.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022537.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.2°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 39% 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: 34/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #10 largest waste power plant of 24 in Portugal by capacity.
Portugal has 24 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 132 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.1995, -8.5458 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
