Hydro power plant in Huancavelica, Peru. Approximate location -12.3537, -74.6556.
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Restitucion is a 210 MW hydro power station in Huancavelica, Peru. It is operated by Electroperú S. A.. Based on reported annual generation of 1,749 GWh, it can supply roughly 500k homes. It ranks #13 of 40 Peru power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 56.1% of Peru's electricity; the national grid averages 238 gCO₂/kWh (63.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022055.
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 L100000603115); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 210 MW, Restitucion is well above the median hydro plant in Peru (152 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
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 Electroperú S. A..
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 12.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion 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 #5 largest hydro power plant of 14 in Peru by capacity.
Peru has 14 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,748 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -12.3537, -74.6556 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Restitucion is a 210 MW source-record hydro power plant in Huancavelica, Peru, commissioned in 1973.
Restitucion generates about 1,749 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 499,714 homes.
Restitucion is operated by Electroperú S. A..
