Geothermal power plant in Copan, Honduras. Approximate location 14.7471, -88.9518.
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Platanares is a 39 MW geothermal power plant in Copan, Honduras. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 73,208 homes (estimated). It ranks #15 of 40 Honduras power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2017, it is around 9 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, geothermal supplies about 2.8% 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 WRI1029382.
This geothermal plant taps underground heat to raise steam that drives a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.7°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.
Honduras has 1 geothermal power plant in this dataset, together about 39 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.7471, -88.9518 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
