Oil power plant in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Guyana. Approximate location 6.7891, -58.1893.
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Versailles Power Station is a 22 MW oil power plant in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Guyana. It is operated by Guyana Power & Light. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated). It ranks #5 of 5 Guyana power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 96.4% of Guyana's electricity; the national grid averages 645 gCO₂/kWh (2.9% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1022996.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Guyana Power & Light. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 6.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.
The #4 largest oil power plant of 4 in Guyana by capacity.
Guyana has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 106 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 6.7891, -58.1893 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
