Waste power plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Approximate location -23.3513, -46.7619.
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Termoverde Caieiras is a 30 MW waste power plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 40,608 homes (estimated). It ranks #706 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 50,162 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 11,693 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 BRA0031436.
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).
This waste plant recovers energy by combusting municipal or industrial waste. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 23.4°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 88% 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.
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 #1 largest waste power plant of 12 in Brazil by capacity.
Brazil has 12 waste power plants in this dataset, together about 106 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -23.3513, -46.7619 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
