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PARQUE EOLICO RAWSON I (ENARSA)

Wind power plant in Chubut, Argentina. Approximate location -43.3522, -65.1734.

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PARQUE EOLICO RAWSON I (ENARSA) is a 49 MW wind power plant in Chubut, Argentina. It is operated by ENARSA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 41,357 homes (estimated). It ranks #77 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).

49MW installed capacity
41,357homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000076.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Argentina

PARQUE EOLICO LOMA BLANCA IV (ENARSA): 50 MW50PARQUE EOL…PARQUE EOLICO RAWSON I (ENARSA): 49 MW49PARQUE EOL…PARQUE EOLICO RAWSON II (ENARSA): 29 MW29PARQUE EOL…PARQUE EOLICO ARAUCO SAPEM I: 25 MW25PARQUE EOL…PARQUE EOLICO ARAUCO SAPEM II: 25 MW25PARQUE EOL…COMODORO RIVADAVIA - ANTONIO MORAN: 17 MW17COMODORO R…PARQUE EOLICO DIADEMA: 6 MW6PARQUE EOL…PARQUE EOLICO EL TORDILLO: 3 MW3PARQUE EOL…

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

Owner

Operated by ENARSA. 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 43.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.3°Cannual mean temp
1,846heating degree-days (base 18°C)
128cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
36 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 20 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 17 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 7 °CJJ: 6 °CJA: 8 °CAS: 10 °CSO: 14 °CON: 16 °CND: 19 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 25% 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: 40/100 — 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 #2 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.

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Location

Coordinates -43.3522, -65.1734 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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