Hydro power plant in Maule, Chile. Approximate location -35.7338, -71.1555.
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PEHUENCHE is a 570 MW hydro power station in Maule, Chile. It is operated by EMPRESA ELECTRICA PEHUENCHE S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 570,651 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 22.2% of Chile's electricity; the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0001092.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by EMPRESA ELECTRICA PEHUENCHE S.A.. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 35.7°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 18% above 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: 60/100 — 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.
The #2 largest hydro power plant of 99 in Chile by capacity.
Chile has 99 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 6,410 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -35.7338, -71.1555 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
