Oil power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Approximate location -29.939, -51.7085.
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Copesul is a 74 MW oil power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is operated by Braskem SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 56k homes (estimated). It ranks #380 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1999, it is around 27 years old — long-established. 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 BRA0000827.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100001081816); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 74 MW, Copesul is well above the median oil plant in Brazil (2 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Braskem SA.
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 29.9°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.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
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.
The #48 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.
Coordinates -29.939, -51.7085 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Copesul is a 74 MW source-record oil power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, commissioned in 1999.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 55,863 homes (estimated).
Copesul is operated by Braskem SA.
