Lufussa

Gas power plant in Valle, Honduras. Approximate location 13.4068, -87.3218.

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Lufussa is a 39 MW gas power plant in Valle, Honduras. It is operated by Empresa Nacional De Energia Electrica. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 44,150 homes (estimated). It ranks #14 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 0.0% of Honduras's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).

39MW installed capacity
44,150homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029367.

~61,811 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

14,408passenger cars driven for a year
8,061homes' yearly energy use
1,030,176tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Owner

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

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~10% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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

Honduras has 1 gas power plant in this dataset, together about 39 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 13.4068, -87.3218 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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