Itaguaçu — Brazil
Hydro power plant in Parana, Brazil. Approximate location -24.6933, -51.5192.
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Itaguaçu is a 14 MW hydro power plant in Parana, Brazil. It ranks #1228 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 51.8% 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 BRA0028921.
Data status
Known data
Calculated from dataset
Not available
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
Data provenance
Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
In context: how this plant compares
At 14 MW, Itaguaçu is well above the median hydro plant in Brazil (11.5 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
How it compares & nearby plants
The #328 largest hydro power plant of 701 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 701 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 105,987 MW of capacity.
Nearby power plants
- Pedrinho I · Hydro · 16 MW · Parana
- Cristalino · Hydro · 4 MW · Parana
- Boa Vista II · Hydro · 8 MW · Parana
- benedito · Hydro · 1 MW · Parana
- Evo · Hydro · 1 MW · Parana
- Dalba · Hydro · 1 MW · Parana
Location
Coordinates -24.6933, -51.5192 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of power plant is Itaguaçu?
Itaguaçu is a 14 MW hydro power plant in Parana, Brazil, Announced 2013.