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Metline

Wind power plant in Banzart, Tunisia. Approximate location 37.1946, 10.061.

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Metline is a 72 MW wind power plant in Banzart, Tunisia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 61,269 homes (estimated). It ranks #13 of 27 Tunisia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2013, it is around 13 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 1.5% of Tunisia's electricity; the national grid averages 560 gCO₂/kWh (4.0% low-carbon) (2025).

72MW installed capacity
61,269homes powered (est.)
2013commissioned (~13 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023624.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Tunisia

Metline: 72 MW72MetlineSidi Daoued: 70 MW70Sidi Daoued

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.2°Cannual mean temp
894heating degree-days (base 18°C)
972cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
16 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 11 °CJF: 12 °CFM: 13 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 19 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 20 °CON: 16 °CND: 12 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 64% 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: 25/100 — 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 #1 largest wind power plant of 2 in Tunisia by capacity.

Tunisia has 2 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 142 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 37.1946, 10.061 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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