Other power plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Approximate location -33.3549, -60.1718.
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PARANA is a 845 MW other power station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is operated by AES ARGENTINA GENERACION S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 634,699 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000001.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by AES ARGENTINA GENERACION S.A.. All plants by this company →
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 33.4°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 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.
The #1 largest other power plant of 2 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 2 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,324 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -33.3549, -60.1718 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
