Oil power plant in Panamá, Panama. Approximate location 8.9091, -79.7809.
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PanAm IC Power Plant Panama is a 96 MW oil power plant in Panamá, Panama. It ranks #10 of 21 Panama power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 7.4% of Panama's electricity; the national grid averages 221 gCO₂/kWh (68.0% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0043556.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
Technically it is described as Engine. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #1 largest oil power plant of 4 in Panama by capacity.
Panama has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 262 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 8.9091, -79.7809 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PanAm IC Power Plant Panama is a 96 MW oil power plant in Panamá, Panama, commissioned in 2016.
