Biomass power plant in Parana, Brazil. Approximate location -24.522, -49.9395.
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Piraí is a 9 MW biomass power plant in Parana, Brazil. It is operated by Iguaçu Embalagens Industriais Ltda. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,389 homes (estimated). It ranks #1355 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. In context, biomass supplies about 7.3% 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 BRA0029282.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Iguaçu Embalagens Industriais Ltda.
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 24.5°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 71% 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: 23/100 — 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 #364 largest biomass power plant of 588 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 588 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 18,337 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -24.522, -49.9395 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
