Hydro power plant in Alto Parana, Brazil. Approximate location -25.4269, -54.5931.
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Itaipu (Parte Brasileira) is a 7,000 MW hydro power station in Alto Parana, Brazil. It is operated by Itaipu Binacional. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 7,008,000 homes (estimated). It ranks #2 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1989, it is around 37 years old — long-established. 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 BRA0001161.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Itaipu Binacional.
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 25.4°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 95% 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: 15/100 — 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 #2 largest hydro power plant of 701 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 701 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 98,039 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -25.4269, -54.5931 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
