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Savona ERG

Other power plant in British Columbia, Canada. Approximate location 50.7488, -120.8551.

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Savona ERG is a 6 MW other power plant in British Columbia, Canada. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,505 homes (estimated). It ranks #884 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. In context, the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
4,505homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0008628.

Capacity vs largest other plants in Canada

Crowsnest Pass ERG: 11 MW11Crowsnest …Savona ERG: 6 MW6Savona ERG

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

3.4°Cannual mean temp
5,308heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,359 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -7 °CJF: -4 °CFM: -1 °CMA: 3 °CAM: 7 °CMJ: 11 °CJJ: 14 °CJA: 14 °CAS: 10 °CSO: 4 °CON: -3 °CND: -7 °CD14 °C

Heating degree-days here run 116% above 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: 96/100 — this site sits in the top 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #2 largest other power plant of 2 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 2 other power plants in this dataset, together about 17 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 50.7488, -120.8551 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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