Arembepe (Antiga Camaçari Pólo de Apoio I) — Brazil

Arembepe (Antiga Camaçari Pólo de Apoio I) is a 150 MW oil power station in Bahia, Brazil. It is operated by Global Participações em Energia SA [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 113k homes (estimated). It ranks #237 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 1.7% 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 BRA0029555.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 150 MW, Arembepe (Antiga Camaçari Pólo de Apoio I) is well above the median oil plant in Brazil (2.4 MW). Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

Key facts

Share of Brazil oil capacity

1.3% of 11,544 MW across 645 plants in this dataset

Age among peers

318 of 610 dated oil plants in Brazil are older

Calculated from the capacity and generation records in this dataset (WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0)).

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Brazil

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

Owner

Operated by Global Participações em Energia SA [100%].

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 12.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

Monthly mean temperature

This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.

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.

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in an extreme marine/tropical environment (estimated ISO 9223 class CX — Extreme), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #27 largest oil power plant of 645 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 645 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,544 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Guarani power station · Oil · 150 MW · Bahia
• Camaçari · Gas · 130.7 MW · Bahia
• Millennium · Gas · 4.78 MW · Bahia
• Sansuy · Oil · 1.92 MW · Bahia
• Apoena power station · Oil · 148 MW · Bahia
• Camaçari Muricy II power plant · Oil · 160.5 MW · Bahia

Location

Coordinates -12.6863, -38.2925 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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