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GNA I power station

Other power plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Approximate location -21.8447, -41.016.

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GNA I power station is a 1,330 MW other power station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is operated by SPIC Brasil SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 998,640 homes (estimated). It ranks #21 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 1,259,744 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 293,647 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,330MW installed capacity
998,640homes powered (est.)
1,259,744t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5513.

1,259,744 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

293,647passenger cars driven for a year
164,286homes' yearly energy use
20,995,733tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in Brazil

GNA I power station: 1,330 MW1kGNA I powe…Santa Cruz power station (Brazil): 1,136 MW1kSanta Cruz…Mauá 3 power station: 570 MW570Mauá 3 pow…Cuiabá power station: 450 MW450Cuiabá pow…CST power station: 306 MW306CST power …BRASKEM CAMACARI COPENE: 287 MW287BRASKEM CA…Euzébio Rocha power station: 240 MW240Euzébio Ro…Sol: 147 MW147Sol

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

Owner

Operated by SPIC Brasil SA.

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 21.8°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)
2,037cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 26 °CJF: 26 °CFM: 26 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 21 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 22 °CSO: 23 °CON: 24 °CND: 25 °CD26 °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 #1 largest other power plant of 12 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 12 other power plants in this dataset, together about 4,961 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates -21.8447, -41.016 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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