Gas power plant in Piura, Peru. Approximate location -4.538416, -81.26441.
GasPiuraPeruOCGT
Malacas power station is a 360.8 MW gas power station in Piura, Peru. It is operated by Enel Generación Piura SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 406k homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 40 Peru power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 36.1% 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 GOGPT_malacas_peru.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000406606; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 360.8 MW, Malacas power station is around the median gas plant in Peru (360.8 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Enel Generación Piura SA [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 4.5°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #8 largest gas power plant of 16 in Peru by capacity.
Peru has 16 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 6,118 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -4.538416, -81.26441 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Malacas power station is a 360.8 MW gas power plant in Piura, Peru, commissioned in 1998.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 406,363 homes (estimated).
Malacas power station is operated by Enel Generación Piura SA [100%].
