Biomass power plant in Goias, Brazil. Approximate location -17.9694, -50.3014.
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Entre Rios power station is a 50 MW biomass power plant in Goias, Brazil. It is operated by Energética Entre Rios Ltda. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 68,828 homes (estimated). It ranks #418 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. 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 CT-5581.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Energética Entre Rios Ltda.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 18.0°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 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 #129 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.
Coordinates -17.9694, -50.3014 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
