Oil power plant in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Approximate location -26.4773, -49.1505.
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MALWEE MALHARIA is a 2 MW oil power plant in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1.4k homes (estimated). It ranks #2164 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. In context, oil supplies about 1.7% 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 BRA0032687.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: ANEEL SIGA official registry; fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 2 MW, MALWEE MALHARIA is below the median oil plant in Brazil (2 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Operação” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 26.5°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 90% 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: 17/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #412 largest oil power plant of 645 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 645 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,544 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -26.4773, -49.1505 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
MALWEE MALHARIA is a 2 MW source-record oil power plant in Santa Catarina, Brazil, commissioned in 2010.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 1,369 homes (estimated).
