Other power plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Approximate location -33.3549, -60.1718.
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PARANA is a 870 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 653k homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 275 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.
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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 tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000406701); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
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.
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.
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 a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness 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.
The #1 largest other power plant of 2 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 2 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,349 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -33.3549, -60.1718 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PARANA is a 870 MW source-record other power plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, commissioned in 2001.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 653,245 homes (estimated).
PARANA is operated by AES ARGENTINA GENERACION S.A..
