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Lufussa II

Oil power plant in Valle, Honduras. Approximate location 13.4043, -87.3205.

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Lufussa II is a 80 MW oil power plant in Valle, Honduras. It is operated by Empresa Nacional De Energia Electrica. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 60,068 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 44.1% of Honduras's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).

80MW installed capacity
60,068homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029351.

~157,680 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

36,755passenger cars driven for a year
20,563homes' yearly energy use
2,628,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Honduras

ENERSA Choloma: 371 MW371ENERSA Cho…Lufussa III: 231 MW231Lufussa IIIELCOSA: 80 MW80ELCOSALufussa II: 80 MW80Lufussa IIEMCE: 27 MW27EMCE

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 oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 13.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

28.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,864cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
26 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 28 °CJF: 29 °CFM: 30 °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 #4 largest oil power plant of 5 in Honduras by capacity.

Honduras has 5 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 789 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 13.4043, -87.3205 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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