Oil power plant in Escuintla, Guatemala. Approximate location 14.26, -90.799.
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Stewart & Stevenson is a 51 MW oil power plant in Escuintla, Guatemala. It ranks #26 of 77 Guatemala power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. In context, oil supplies about 15.8% 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 WRI1061422.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 51 MW, Stewart & Stevenson is well above the median oil plant in Guatemala (44 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #8 largest oil power plant of 19 in Guatemala by capacity.
Guatemala has 19 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 983 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.26, -90.799 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Stewart & Stevenson is a 51 MW oil power plant in Escuintla, Guatemala, commissioned in 1995.
