Gas power plant in Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo, Trinidad and Tobago. Approximate location 10.4188, -61.4855.
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Point Lisas is a 852 MW gas power station in Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo, Trinidad and Tobago. It is operated by Power Generation Company of Trinidad and Tobago. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 959,595 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 6 Trinidad and Tobago power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1999, it is around 27 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 99.5% of Trinidad and Tobago's electricity; the national grid averages 682 gCO₂/kWh (0.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002028.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Power Generation Company of Trinidad and Tobago. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.4°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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~8% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #1 largest gas power plant of 4 in Trinidad and Tobago by capacity.
Trinidad and Tobago has 4 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 1,874 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 10.4188, -61.4855 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
