Solar power plant in Calabarzon, Philippines. Approximate location 14.151, 121.0868.
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Tanauan is a 64 MW solar power plant in Calabarzon, Philippines. It is operated by Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 27k homes (estimated). It ranks #112 of 186 Philippines power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2025, it is around 1 years old — recently built. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 2.4% of Philippines's electricity; the national grid averages 588 gCO₂/kWh (23.3% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0070613.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 64 MW for Tanauan solar farm, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: A2_MEDIUM_REVIEW - recommended action: manual_source_check - confidence: medium. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000801456); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 64 MW, Tanauan is well above the median solar plant in Philippines (16 MW). Technically it is described as Assumed PV. Solar PV converts sunlight directly into electricity with no moving parts or fuel; output varies by time of day and weather, so it pairs with storage or flexible backup.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc.
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 14.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #4 largest solar power plant of 48 in Philippines by capacity.
Philippines has 48 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,296 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 14.151, 121.0868 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tanauan is a 64 MW source-record solar power plant in Calabarzon, Philippines, commissioned in 2025.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 27,231 homes (estimated).
Tanauan is operated by Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc.
