Hydro power plant in Guyane, French Guiana. Approximate location 5.0627, -53.0476.
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Petit Saut is a 114 MW hydro power station in Guyane, French Guiana. It is operated by Électricité de France. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113,729 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 6 French Guiana power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1994, it is around 32 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 53.1% of French Guiana's electricity; the national grid averages 245 gCO₂/kWh (65.3% low-carbon) (2023).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022129.
Operated by Électricité de France. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 5.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
French Guiana has 1 hydro power plant in this dataset, together about 114 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 5.0627, -53.0476 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
