Other power plant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Approximate location -22.9145, -43.7654.
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Santa Cruz power station (Brazil) is a 1,136 MW other power station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is operated by Âmbar Energia SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 852,973 homes (estimated). It ranks #28 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 232,454 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 54,185 cars driven for a year. In context, 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-5533.
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 Âmbar Energia SA. All plants by this company →
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 22.9°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 #2 largest other power plant of 12 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 12 other power plants in this dataset, together about 4,961 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -22.9145, -43.7654 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
