PUNTA DEL TIGRE A

PUNTA DEL TIGRE A is a 300 MW oil power station in San Jose, Uruguay. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 225,257 homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 73 Uruguay power plants by installed capacity. 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.

~591,300 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Uruguay

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

Local climate & thermal context

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.

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 #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.

Nearby power plants

• PUNTA DEL TIGRE 7 Y 8 · Gas · 50 MW · San Jose
• PARQUE EÓLICO MAGDALENA · Wind · 17 MW · San Jose
• SANTA FE · Wind · 2 MW · San Jose
• PARQUE EÓLICO LIBERTAD · Wind · 8 MW · San Jose
• MARYSTAY · Wind · 2 MW · San Jose
• PARQUE EÓLICO KIYÚ · Wind · 49 MW · San Jose

Location

Coordinates -34.75, -56.5422 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.