Hydro power plant in Cusco, Peru. Approximate location -13.1739, -72.564.
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Macchu Picchu is a 189 MW hydro power station in Cusco, Peru. It is operated by Emp. de Generación Eléctrica Machu Picchu S. A.. Based on reported annual generation of 985 GWh, it can supply roughly 281,428 homes. It ranks #13 of 32 Peru power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1964, it is around 62 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 56.1% of Peru's electricity; the national grid averages 238 gCO₂/kWh (63.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022050.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Emp. de Generación Eléctrica Machu Picchu S. A..
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a subpolar oceanic climate (Köppen Cfc) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 13.2°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 29% above 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: 67/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #6 largest hydro power plant of 14 in Peru by capacity.
Peru has 14 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,735 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -13.1739, -72.564 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
