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Waiyevo

Oil power plant in Circonscription de Sigave, Fiji. Approximate location -16.7844, -179.9777.

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Waiyevo is a 3 MW oil power plant in Circonscription de Sigave, Fiji. It is operated by Fiji Electricity Authority. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,252 homes (estimated). It ranks #12 of 12 Fiji power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 36.5% of Fiji's electricity; the national grid averages 278 gCO₂/kWh (63.5% low-carbon) (2024).

3MW installed capacity
2,252homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061477.

~5,913 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,378passenger cars driven for a year
771homes' yearly energy use
98,550tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Fiji

Kinoya: 48 MW48KinoyaVuda: 20 MW20VudaLevuka Power Station: 3 MW3Levuka Pow…Waiyevo: 3 MW3Waiyevo

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

Owner

Operated by Fiji Electricity Authority. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 16.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.1°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,847cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
517 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 25 °CFM: 24 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 22 °CON: 24 °CND: 24 °CD25 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #4 largest oil power plant of 4 in Fiji by capacity.

Fiji has 4 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 74 MW of capacity.

Location

Coordinates -16.7844, -179.9777 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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