Petcoke power plant in Biobio, Chile. Approximate location -36.7873, -73.1217.
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PETROPOWER is a 63 MW petcoke power plant in Biobio, Chile. It is operated by PETROPOWER S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 78,840 homes (estimated). It ranks #93 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0000106.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical petcoke emission factor (~1050 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Operated by PETROPOWER S.A..
This petcoke plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 36.8°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 17% 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: 44/100 — 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.
Chile has 1 petcoke power plant in this dataset, together about 63 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -36.7873, -73.1217 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
