Coal power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Approximate location -29.9513, -51.6224.
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Charqueadas power station is an coal power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is operated by Engie Brasil Energia SA. It ranks #2547 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. 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 CT-5623.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Engie Brasil Energia SA.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 30.0°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 86% 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: 18/100 — 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.
Brazil has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 3,138 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -29.9513, -51.6224 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
