Tinker

Hydro power plant in Maine, Canada. Approximate location 46.8097, -67.7665.

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Tinker is a 37 MW hydro power plant in Maine, Canada. It is operated by Algonquin Power. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 36,842 homes (estimated). It ranks #422 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 52.8% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

37MW installed capacity
36,842homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0008475.

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

Owner

Operated by Algonquin Power. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 46.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

3.8°Cannual mean temp
5,176heating degree-days (base 18°C)
12cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
182 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -13 °CJF: -11 °CFM: -5 °CMA: 3 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 6 °CON: 0 °CND: -8 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 111% 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: 95/100 — 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 #185 largest hydro power plant of 556 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 556 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 80,683 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 46.8097, -67.7665 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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