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Xirokambi

Solar power plant in Peloponnese, Greece. Approximate location 36.9545, 22.4902.

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Xirokambi is a 6 MW solar power plant in Peloponnese, Greece. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,552 homes (estimated). It ranks #66 of 90 Greece power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 22.2% of Greece's electricity; the national grid averages 315 gCO₂/kWh (49.7% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
2,552homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0065680.

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.6°Cannual mean temp
1,238heating degree-days (base 18°C)
758cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
203 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 9 °CJF: 9 °CFM: 11 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 18 °CON: 14 °CND: 10 °CD26 °C

Heating degree-days here run 50% 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: 29/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.2% 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 #16 largest solar power plant of 38 in Greece by capacity.

Greece has 38 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 218 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 36.9545, 22.4902 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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