Hydro power plant in Corrientes, Argentina. Approximate location -27.4827, -56.7397.
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YACYRETA is a 1,550 MW hydro power station in Corrientes, Argentina. It is operated by EBY. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,551,771 homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 236 Argentina power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 17.1% of Argentina's electricity; the national grid averages 346 gCO₂/kWh (41.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id ARG0000136.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by EBY.
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 27.5°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 94% 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: 16/100 — 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 #1 largest hydro power plant of 50 in Argentina by capacity.
Argentina has 50 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 10,000 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -27.4827, -56.7397 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
