Nacaome

Hydro power plant in Francisco Morazan, Honduras. Approximate location 13.6869, -87.3605.

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Nacaome is a 30 MW hydro power plant in Francisco Morazan, Honduras. It is operated by Empresa Nacional De Energia Electrica. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 30,034 homes (estimated). It ranks #18 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 30.4% of Honduras's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).

30MW installed capacity
30,034homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029360.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Honduras

Fransisco Morazan (el Cajon): 300 MW300Fransisco …Rio Lindo: 80 MW80Rio LindoNacaome: 30 MW30NacaomeCanaveral: 29 MW29CanaveralEl Nispero: 22 MW22El NisperoCuyamapa: 13 MW13CuyamapaLa Esperanza: 13 MW13La Esperan…Cuyamel: 8 MW8Cuyamel

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

Owner

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 13.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.5°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,729cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
447 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 25 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 26 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 25 °CON: 24 °CND: 24 °CD27 °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.

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 #3 largest hydro power plant of 12 in Honduras by capacity.

Honduras has 12 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 515 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 13.6869, -87.3605 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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