Coal power plant in Para, Brazil. Approximate location -1.5374, -48.723.
CoalParaBrazilCO₂ reported
Alunorte is a 104 MW coal power station in Para, Brazil. It is operated by Alumina do Norte do Brasil SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 130,023 homes (estimated). It ranks #244 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 601,570 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 140,226 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 2.3% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0028916.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Alumina do Norte do Brasil SA.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 1.5°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 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.
The #9 largest coal power plant of 21 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 3,138 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -1.5374, -48.723 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
