Hydro power plant in Lima, Peru. Approximate location -11.8865, -76.4556.
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Matucana is a 120 MW hydro power station in Lima, Peru. It is operated by Edegel S.A.A.. Based on reported annual generation of 891 GWh, it can supply roughly 254,571 homes. It ranks #20 of 32 Peru power plants by installed capacity. 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 WRI1022058.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Edegel S.A.A.. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a polar tundra climate (Köppen ET) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 11.9°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 54% 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: 81/100 — 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 #10 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 -11.8865, -76.4556 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
