Gas power plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Approximate location -22.308, -41.8767.
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MARIO LAGO is a 922 MW gas power station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,038,435 homes (estimated). It ranks #34 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 273,186 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 63,680 cars driven for a year. 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 CT-5531.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 22.3°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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~6% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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.
The #2 largest gas power plant of 133 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 133 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 14,755 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -22.308, -41.8767 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
