Oil power plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Approximate location -23.6963, -46.6686.
OilSao PauloBrazilCO₂ reported
Piratininga is a 190 MW oil power station in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is operated by Petróleo Brasileiro SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 142,662 homes (estimated). It ranks #146 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1954, it is around 72 years old — an older, legacy facility. Its measured emissions of 83,374 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 19,434 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 BRA0002082.
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 Petróleo Brasileiro SA. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 23.7°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 85% 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: 19/100 — 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 #10 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 -23.6963, -46.6686 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
