Gas power plant in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Approximate location -29.8724, -51.1374.
GasRio Grande do SulBrazilCO₂ reported
Sepé Tiaraju (Antiga Canoas) is a 249 MW gas power station in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is operated by Petróleo Brasileiro SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 279,994 homes (estimated). It ranks #115 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2001, it is around 25 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 51,133 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 11,919 cars driven for a year. In context, gas 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 BRA0028038.
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 gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 29.9°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 89% 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: 18/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~3% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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 #23 largest gas power plant of 133 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 133 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 14,755 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -29.8724, -51.1374 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
