Hydro power plant in Pando, Brazil. Approximate location -9.2664, -64.6478.
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Jirau is a 3,750 MW hydro power station in Pando, Brazil. It is operated by Engie / Energia Sustentável do Brasil (ESBR). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,754,285 homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2013, it is around 13 years old — relatively modern. 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 BRA0029736.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Engie / Energia Sustentável do Brasil (ESBR).
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 9.3°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 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.
The #3 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 -9.2664, -64.6478 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
