Hydro power plant in Mendoza, Argentina. Approximate location -34.9907, -68.6237.
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NIHUIL I is a 74 MW hydro power plant in Mendoza, Argentina. It is operated by HINISA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 74,284 homes (estimated). It ranks #64 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1957, it is around 69 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 17.1% of Argentina's electricity; the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000214.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by HINISA. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 35.0°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 2% 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: 51/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #18 largest hydro power plant of 50 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 50 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 10,000 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -34.9907, -68.6237 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
