Oil power plant in Guyane, Brazil. Approximate location 3.8384, -51.8266.
OilGuyaneBrazilCO₂ reported
Oiapoque is a 8 MW oil power plant in Guyane, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 6,157 homes (estimated). It ranks #1383 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1998, it is around 28 years old — long-established. Its measured emissions of 8,667 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,020 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0028008.
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 oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 3.8°N — 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 #120 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.
Coordinates 3.8384, -51.8266 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
