Santana — Brazil

Santana is a 178.1 MW oil power station in Amapa, Brazil. It ranks #213 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. 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 BRA0027104.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 178.1 MW, Santana is well above the median oil plant in Brazil (2.4 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #12 largest oil power plant of 645 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 645 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,544 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Flórida Clean Power do Amapá · Biomass · 1.7 MW · Amapa
• Amapá Power I power station · Gas · 300 MW · Amapá
• Amapá Power II power station · Gas · 300 MW · Amapá
• Amapá Power III power station · Gas · 300 MW · Amapá
• Amapá Garden Shopping · Oil · 4.6 MW · Amapa
• Ferreira Gomes · Hydro · 252 MW · Amapa

Location

Coordinates -0.0096, -51.1716 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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