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PARQUE EOLICO A CARBA

Wind power plant in Galicia, Spain. Approximate location 43.3, -7.6833.

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PARQUE EOLICO A CARBA is a 20 MW wind power plant in Galicia, Spain. It is operated by CORPORACION ACCIONA EOLICA S.L.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,593 homes (estimated). It ranks #563 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 20.4% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).

20MW installed capacity
16,593homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1007301.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Spain

P.E. DOLAR 1: 99 MW99P.E. DOLAR…P.E. TORRE MIRO II: 99 MW99P.E. TORRE…PENAFLOR III: 98 MW98PENAFLOR I…PARAMO DE POZA I: 97 MW97PARAMO DE …PARQUE EOLICO ALTO PALANCIA III: 94 MW94PARQUE EOL…P.E. TARDIENTA I: 94 MW94P.E. TARDI…P.E. SAN JUAN DE BARGAS (UNIFICADO): 90 MW90P.E. SAN J…SAN LORENZO A: 88 MW88SAN LORENZ…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by CORPORACION ACCIONA EOLICA S.L.. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.2°Cannual mean temp
2,117heating degree-days (base 18°C)
18cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
434 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 13 °CON: 10 °CND: 8 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 14% 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: 45/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #264 largest wind power plant of 342 in Spain by capacity.

Spain has 342 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 11,337 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 43.3, -7.6833 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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