Oil power plant in San Jose, Uruguay. Approximate location -34.75, -56.5422.
OilSan JoseUruguayCCGT · HRSG
PUNTA DEL TIGRE A is a 300 MW oil power station in San Jose, Uruguay. It is operated by Administracion Nacional De Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 225k homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 73 Uruguay power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 2.2% of Uruguay's electricity; the national grid averages 80 gCO₂/kWh (97.8% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id URY0000824.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000406618); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Administracion Nacional De Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 34.8°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 58% 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: 26/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest oil power plant of 4 in Uruguay by capacity.
Uruguay has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 386 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -34.75, -56.5422 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
PUNTA DEL TIGRE A is a 300 MW source-record oil power plant in San Jose, Uruguay, commissioned in 2006.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 225,257 homes (estimated).
PUNTA DEL TIGRE A is operated by Administracion Nacional De Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas [100%].
