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Alhandra

Wind power plant in Paraiba, Brazil. Approximate location -7.2731, -34.9344.

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Alhandra is a 6 MW wind power plant in Paraiba, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,361 homes (estimated). It ranks #1464 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2011, it is around 15 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 15.7% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

6MW installed capacity
5,361homes powered (est.)
2011commissioned (~15 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0029112.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Brazil

Praia Formosa: 105 MW105Praia Form…Alegria II: 101 MW101Alegria IIParque Eólico Elebrás Cidreira 1: 70 MW70Parque Eól…Miassaba 3: 68 MW68Miassaba 3Rei dos Ventos 3: 60 MW60Rei dos Ve…Rei dos Ventos 1: 58 MW58Rei dos Ve…Canoa Quebrada: 57 MW57Canoa Queb…Eólica Icaraizinho: 55 MW55Eólica Ica…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 7.3°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

25.0°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,551cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
50 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 25 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 23 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 25 °CON: 26 °CND: 26 °CD26 °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 #387 largest wind power plant of 412 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 412 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 10,296 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -7.2731, -34.9344 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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