Biomass power plant in Paraiba, Brazil. Approximate location -7.4176, -35.2441.
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Central Olho D Água is a 25 MW biomass power plant in Paraiba, Brazil. It is operated by Usina Central Olho d'Água SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 34,414 homes (estimated). It ranks #915 of 2,613 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. In context, biomass supplies about 7.3% 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 BRA0028692.
At 25 MW, Central Olho D Água is well above the median biomass plant in Brazil (15 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Usina Central Olho d'Água SA.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen As) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 7.4°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 #227 largest biomass power plant of 588 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 588 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 18,337 MW of capacity.
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Coordinates -7.4176, -35.2441 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
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Central Olho D Água is a 25 MW biomass power plant in Paraiba, Brazil, commissioned in 2015.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 34,414 homes (estimated).
Central Olho D Água is operated by Usina Central Olho d'Água SA.
