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EnergyWorks Corn Products Balsa

Gas power plant in Parana, Brazil. Approximate location -25.58, -49.6265.

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EnergyWorks Corn Products Balsa is a 9 MW gas power plant in Parana, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 10,361 homes (estimated). It ranks #1339 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2002, it is around 24 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 12,755 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,973 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 7.3% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

9MW installed capacity
10,361homes powered (est.)
12,755t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2002commissioned (~24 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0028077.

12,755 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,973passenger cars driven for a year
1,663homes' yearly energy use
212,583tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest gas plants in Brazil

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

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 25.6°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.0°Cannual mean temp
670heating degree-days (base 18°C)
288cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
901 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 21 °CJF: 21 °CFM: 20 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 13 °CJJ: 13 °CJA: 14 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 17 °CON: 19 °CND: 20 °CD21 °C

Heating degree-days here run 73% 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: 23/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~1% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #60 largest gas power plant of 133 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 133 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 14,755 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -25.58, -49.6265 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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