Gas power plant in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Approximate location 19.302354, -81.363992.
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North Sound Road power plant is a 114 MW gas power station in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It is operated by Caribbean Utilities Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 128k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 1 Cayman Islands power plants by installed capacity.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_northsoundroad_cayman.
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 · L100000408558; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Engine. 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.
Operated by Caribbean Utilities Co Ltd [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 19.3°N — 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 extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), 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.
Cayman Islands has 1 gas power plant in this dataset, together about 114 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 19.302354, -81.363992 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
North Sound Road power plant is a 114 MW gas power plant in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 128,396 homes (estimated).
North Sound Road power plant is operated by Caribbean Utilities Co Ltd [100%].
