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Serra da Boneca - Torrão

Wind power plant in Porto, Portugal. Approximate location 41.0727, -8.3425.

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Serra da Boneca - Torrão is a 2 MW wind power plant in Porto, Portugal. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,701 homes (estimated). It ranks #394 of 469 Portugal power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 26.7% of Portugal's electricity; the national grid averages 128 gCO₂/kWh (81.0% low-carbon) (2025).

2MW installed capacity
1,701homes powered (est.)
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023458.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Portugal

Alto Douro: 253 MW253Alto DouroAlto Minho I: 240 MW240Alto Minho…Alto da Coutada: 166 MW166Alto da Co…Pinhal Interior: 144 MW144Pinhal Int…Raia: 129 MW129RaiaPenamacor: 124 MW124PenamacorArada-Montemuro: 121 MW121Arada-Mont…Gardunha: 114 MW114Gardunha

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

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.8°Cannual mean temp
1,957heating degree-days (base 18°C)
84cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
541 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 7 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 11 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 17 °CJJ: 19 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 18 °CSO: 14 °CON: 10 °CND: 8 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 20% 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: 42/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #207 largest wind power plant of 224 in Portugal by capacity.

Portugal has 224 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 4,942 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.0727, -8.3425 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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