Gas power plant in Espirito Santo, Brazil. Approximate location -19.5323, -39.7992.
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Luiz Oscar Rodrigues de Melo (Antiga Linhares) is a 204 MW gas power station in Espirito Santo, Brazil. It ranks #197 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 7.3% 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 BRA0030054.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 241 MW for Luiz Oscar Rodrigues de Melo power stati, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 204 MW, Luiz Oscar Rodrigues de Melo (Antiga Linhares) is well above the median gas plant in Brazil (100.2 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #83 largest gas power plant of 195 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 195 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 74,861 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -19.5323, -39.7992 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Luiz Oscar Rodrigues de Melo (Antiga Linhares) is a 204 MW gas power plant in Espirito Santo, Brazil, Announced 2010.
