Waste power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Approximate location -30.1468, -52.0165.
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Biotérmica Recreio is a 9 MW waste power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 11,838 homes (estimated). It ranks #1374 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. In context, the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0030541.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 30.1°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 83% 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: 20/100 — 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 #4 largest waste power plant of 12 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 12 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 106 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -30.1468, -52.0165 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
