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Ituverava

Solar power plant in Bahia, Brazil. Approximate location -12.594, -44.112.

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Ituverava is a 210 MW solar power station in Bahia, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 89,352 homes (estimated). It ranks #136 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 11.8% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

210MW installed capacity
89,352homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0066301.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Brazil

Ituverava: 210 MW210ItuveravaNova Olinda: 210 MW210Nova OlindaBJL ENEL: 158 MW158BJL ENELGuaimbe: 150 MW150GuaimbePirapora I: 150 MW150Pirapora IApodi: 120 MW120ApodiParacatu: 120 MW120ParacatuPirapora II: 115 MW115Pirapora II

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

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 12.6°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

23.7°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,069cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
687 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 24 °CJF: 24 °CFM: 24 °CMA: 24 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 22 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 23 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 26 °CON: 25 °CND: 24 °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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.2% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 solar power plant of 24 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 24 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 1,807 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates -12.594, -44.112 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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