Hydro power plant in Azuay, Ecuador. Approximate location -2.7833, -79.0.
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Saucay is a 24 MW hydro power plant in Azuay, Ecuador. It is operated by Elecaustro. Based on reported annual generation of 141 GWh, it can supply roughly 40,400 homes. It ranks #15 of 22 Ecuador power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 77.9% of Ecuador's electricity; the national grid averages 159 gCO₂/kWh (79.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1018625.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Elecaustro. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 2.8°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 31% 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: 38/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #5 largest hydro power plant of 10 in Ecuador by capacity.
Ecuador has 10 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 3,254 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -2.7833, -79.0 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
