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PORTODEMOUROS GRUPO 2

Hydro power plant in Galicia, Spain. Approximate location 42.3167, -7.0274.

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PORTODEMOUROS GRUPO 2 is a 88 MW hydro power plant in Galicia, Spain. It is operated by GAS NATURAL FENOSA GENERACION S.L.U.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 88,200 homes (estimated). It ranks #129 of 872 Spain power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1968, it is around 58 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 11.4% of Spain's electricity; the national grid averages 154 gCO₂/kWh (74.6% low-carbon) (2025).

88MW installed capacity
88,200homes powered (est.)
1968commissioned (~58 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1007802.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Spain

ALDEADAVILA II 2: 1,226 MW1kALDEADAVIL…JOSE M ORIOL GRUPO 4: 953 MW953JOSE M ORI…La Muela II Grupo 4: 878 MW878La Muela I…VILLARINO 4: 851 MW851VILLARINO 4LA MUELA CORTES 1: 634 MW634LA MUELA C…SAUCELLE II 1: 516 MW516SAUCELLE I…CEDILLO 3: 495 MW495CEDILLO 3San Esteban II Grupo 1: 438 MW438San Esteba…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by GAS NATURAL FENOSA GENERACION S.L.U.. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.4°Cannual mean temp
3,500heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,336 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 1 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 4 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 9 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 17 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 9 °CON: 5 °CND: 2 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 42% 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: 76/100 — this site sits in the top 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #39 largest hydro power plant of 124 in Spain by capacity.

Spain has 124 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 15,659 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 42.3167, -7.0274 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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