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Monte Cristo power station

Oil power plant in Roraima, Brazil. Approximate location 2.931, -60.7122.

OilRoraimaBrazilCO₂ reported

Monte Cristo power station is a 155 MW oil power station in Roraima, Brazil. It is operated by Oliveira Energia SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 116,307 homes (estimated). It ranks #175 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 111,883 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 26,080 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 1.7% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

155MW installed capacity
116,307homes powered (est.)
111,883t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5540.

111,883 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

26,080passenger cars driven for a year
14,591homes' yearly energy use
1,864,717tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Brazil

Mauá: 553 MW553MauáDo Atlântico: 490 MW490Do Atlânti…Suape II: 381 MW381Suape IIEnergética Suape II SA power station: 381 MW381Energética…Termoparaiba and Termonordeste: 342 MW342Termoparai…Global II power station: 335 MW335Global II …Aparecida Parte I: 241 MW241Aparecida …CST: 225 MW225CST

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

Owner

Operated by Oliveira Energia SA.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 2.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

27.8°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,574cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
85 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 28 °CJF: 28 °CFM: 28 °CMA: 28 °CAM: 27 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 27 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 29 °CON: 28 °CND: 28 °CD29 °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.

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 #23 largest oil power plant of 644 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 644 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,042 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 2.931, -60.7122 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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