Biomass power plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Approximate location -21.3524, -51.3564.
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Rio Vermelho 2 is a 40 MW biomass power plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is operated by Viterra Bioenergia SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 55,062 homes (estimated). It ranks #472 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 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 BRA0031793.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Viterra Bioenergia SA. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 21.4°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 #165 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 -21.3524, -51.3564 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
