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Esplanada power station

Biomass power plant in Goias, Brazil. Approximate location -15.2126, -48.986.

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Esplanada power station is a 78 MW biomass power plant in Goias, Brazil. It is operated by Albioma Esplanada Energia SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 106,959 homes (estimated). It ranks #309 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).

78MW installed capacity
106,959homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5882.

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

Owner

Operated by Albioma Esplanada Energia SA.

Local climate & thermal context

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 15.2°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,044cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
610 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 24 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 25 °CON: 24 °CND: 24 °CD25 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #63 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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Location

Coordinates -15.2126, -48.986 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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