Gas power plant in Cortés, Honduras. Approximate location 15.60852, -87.96279.
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PECSA power station is a 54 MW gas power plant in Cortés, Honduras. It is operated by Progressive Energy Corporation SA de CV [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 61k homes (estimated). It ranks #17 of 47 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2020, it is around 6 years old — recently built. In context, gas supplies about 0.0% of Honduras's electricity; the national grid averages 322 gCO₂/kWh (55.4% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_pecsa_hondur.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 · 2026 · L100000408913; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Engine. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Progressive Energy Corporation SA de CV [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 15.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), 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 #3 largest gas power plant of 4 in Honduras by capacity.
Honduras has 4 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 693 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 15.60852, -87.96279 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PECSA power station is a 54 MW gas power plant in Cortés, Honduras, commissioned in 2020.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 60,819 homes (estimated).
PECSA power station is operated by Progressive Energy Corporation SA de CV [100%].
