Power plants in BrazilA directory of 2,572 power plants in Brazil with a combined installed capacity of 234,003 MW, mapped and ranked from open data — by fuel, capacity and emissions.
Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 72 Brazil power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 24.1 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, Pampa Sul power station (coal), accounts for about 11% of that 72-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — Âmbar Energia SA, Petróleo Brasileiro SA, Usina Termelétrica Pampa Sul SA — control roughly 52% of that 72-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a tropical Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belo Monte | Hydro | 11,233 |
| 2 | Tucuruí | Hydro | 8,535 |
| 3 | Itaipu (Parte Brasileira) | Hydro | 7,000 |
| 4 | Jirau | Hydro | 3,750 |
| 5 | Santo Antônio | Hydro | 3,568 |
| 6 | Ilha Solteira | Hydro | 3,444 |
| 7 | Porto Norte Fluminense power station | Gas | 3,400 |
| 8 | Xingó | Hydro | 3,162 |
| 9 | Porto de Sergipe power station | Gas | 2,909 |
| 10 | Power Maricá power station | Gas | 2,600 |
| 11 | Paulo Afonso IV | Hydro | 2,462 |
| 12 | Jandaia power station | Gas | 2,430 |
| 13 | Vila do Conde power station | Gas | 2,310 |
| 14 | Termopecém power station | Gas | 2,240 |
| 15 | Açu power station | Coal | 2,100 |
| 16 | Itumbiara | Hydro | 2,082 |
| 17 | Tupã power station | Gas | 2,040 |
| 18 | GNA III power station | Gas | 1,927 |
| 19 | Geramar III power station | Gas | 1,894 |
| 20 | Gaslub power station | Gas | 1,867 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — Brazil. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/brazil/
There are 2,572 power plants in Brazil in this open dataset, with about 234,003 MW of total capacity.
Belo Monte is the largest at about 11,233 MW (hydro).
The most common plant type in this dataset is hydro (701 plants), across 10 fuel types in total.
Brazil's grid carbon intensity is about 110 gCO₂/kWh, with 88.7% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
