Wind power plant in Coquimbo, Chile. Approximate location -31.2345, -71.6404.
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PUNTA PALMERAS is a 45 MW wind power plant in Coquimbo, Chile. It is operated by PUNTA PALMERAS S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 38,293 homes (estimated). It ranks #116 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 13.1% of Chile's electricity; the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0002014.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PUNTA PALMERAS S.A..
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 31.2°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 43% 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: 32/100 — 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.
The #10 largest wind power plant of 18 in Chile by capacity.
Chile has 18 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 897 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -31.2345, -71.6404 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
