Wind power plant in Pernambuco, Brazil. Approximate location -9.0625, -38.1186.
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Pau Ferro is a 31 MW wind power plant in Pernambuco, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 26,039 homes (estimated). It ranks #532 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 15.7% 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 BRA0030805.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 9.1°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.
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 #34 largest wind power plant of 412 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 412 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 10,296 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -9.0625, -38.1186 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
