Other power plant in Amazonas, Brazil. Approximate location -3.1075, -59.9389.
OtherAmazonasBrazilCO₂ modelled
Tambaqui power station is a 143 MW other power station in Amazonas, Brazil. It is operated by Âmbar Energia SA. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 108k homes (estimated). It ranks #246 of 2,572 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 331,270 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 77k 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-5526.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000408549); fuel: GEM wiki unit table: heavy fuel oil and natural gas mix; classified as Other rather than single-fuel overclaim
This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from 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 monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 3.1°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #3 largest other power plant of 4 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 4 other power plants in this dataset, together about 699 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -3.1075, -59.9389 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tambaqui power station is a 143 MW source-record other power plant in Amazonas, Brazil.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 107,597 homes (estimated).
Tambaqui power station is operated by Âmbar Energia SA.
Tambaqui power station has modelled emissions of about 331,270 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
