Wind power plant in Escuintla, Guatemala. Approximate location 14.36, -90.556.
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San Antonio El Sitio is a 48 MW wind power plant in Escuintla, Guatemala. Based on reported annual generation of 122 GWh, it can supply roughly 34,971 homes. It ranks #28 of 76 Guatemala power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 2.3% of Guatemala's electricity; the national grid averages 301 gCO₂/kWh (68.3% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061452.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.4°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.
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 #1 largest wind power plant of 2 in Guatemala by capacity.
Guatemala has 2 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 71 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.36, -90.556 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
