Biomass power plant in Maranhao, Brazil. Approximate location -5.3358, -47.5658.
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Suzano Maranhão is a 255 MW biomass power station in Maranhao, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 350,750 homes (estimated). It ranks #110 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 BRA0030959.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
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 5.3°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 #3 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 -5.3358, -47.5658 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
