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Waubaushene 5

Solar power plant in Ontario, Canada. Approximate location 44.7706, -79.6018.

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Waubaushene 5 is a 4 MW solar power plant in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by Aurora Waubaushene 5 LP. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,489 homes (estimated). It ranks #995 of 1,159 Canada power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 1.6% of Canada's electricity; the national grid averages 191 gCO₂/kWh (77.0% low-carbon) (2025).

4MW installed capacity
1,489homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CAN0008532.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Canada

Grand Renewable Energy Park: 100 MW100Grand Rene…Sol-Luce Kingston: 100 MW100Sol-Luce K…Sarnia 2: 60 MW60Sarnia 2Loyalist: 54 MW54LoyalistSouthgate Solar: 50 MW50Southgate …Windsor Airport SF: 50 MW50Windsor Ai…SSM 2/3: 45 MW45SSM 2/3Nanticoke: 44 MW44Nanticoke

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

Owner

Operated by Aurora Waubaushene 5 LP.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.8°Cannual mean temp
4,489heating degree-days (base 18°C)
75cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
201 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -9 °CJF: -9 °CFM: -3 °CMA: 4 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 20 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 8 °CON: 2 °CND: -5 °CD20 °C

Heating degree-days here run 83% 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: 90/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #135 largest solar power plant of 143 in Canada by capacity.

Canada has 143 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,827 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 44.7706, -79.6018 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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