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PARQUE EOLICO PENAS ALTAS

Wind power plant in Valencia, Spain. Approximate location 39.7493, -0.9968.

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PARQUE EOLICO PENAS ALTAS is a 50 MW wind power plant in Valencia, Spain. It is operated by ENERGIAS EOLICAS EUROPEAS S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 42,123 homes (estimated). It ranks #262 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).

50MW installed capacity
42,123homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1007604.

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 ENERGIAS EOLICAS EUROPEAS S.A.. 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 hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.6°Cannual mean temp
1,977heating degree-days (base 18°C)
391cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
687 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 7 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 14 °CON: 9 °CND: 7 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% 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: 43/100 — 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 #61 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 39.7493, -0.9968 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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