Gas power plant in Vargas, Venezuela. Approximate location 10.5877, -67.0806.
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Ricardo Zuloaga (Tacoa) Thermal Power Plant Venezuela is a 1,720 MW gas power station in Vargas, Venezuela. It is operated by Government Operating: La Electricidad de Caracas (EDC). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,937,211 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 43 Venezuela power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1956, it is around 70 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 4.5% of Venezuela's electricity; the national grid averages 86 gCO₂/kWh (91.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061135.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Government Operating: La Electricidad de Caracas (EDC).
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 10.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~4% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #2 largest gas power plant of 34 in Venezuela by capacity.
Venezuela has 34 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 13,430 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 10.5877, -67.0806 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
