Wind power plant in La Rioja, Argentina. Approximate location -28.6684, -66.7524.
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PARQUE EOLICO ARAUCO SAPEM I is a 25 MW wind power plant in La Rioja, Argentina. It is operated by PARQUE EOLICO ARAUCO S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21,444 homes (estimated). It ranks #106 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 12.2% of Argentina's electricity; the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000192.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PARQUE EOLICO ARAUCO S.A.. All plants by this company →
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 28.7°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 66% 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 #4 largest wind power plant of 12 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 12 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 212 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -28.6684, -66.7524 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
