Coal power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Approximate location -31.4506, -53.7769.
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Pampa Sul power station is a 345 MW coal power station in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is operated by Usina Termelétrica Pampa Sul SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 431,742 homes (estimated). It ranks #91 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,545,550 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 593,368 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 2.3% 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-5506.
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).
Operated by Usina Termelétrica Pampa Sul SA.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 31.5°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 77% 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: 21/100 — 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 #6 largest coal power plant of 21 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 3,138 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -31.4506, -53.7769 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
