Ventos de Santo Estevão V

Ventos de Santo Estevão V is a 28 MW wind power plant in Piaui, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 23,486 homes (estimated). It ranks #777 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 15.7% 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 BRA0031764.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Brazil

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 7.8°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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #198 largest wind power plant of 412 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 412 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 10,296 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ventos de Santo Estevão III · Wind · 30 MW · Piaui
• Ventos de Santo Estevão II · Wind · 25 MW · Pernambuco
• Ventos de Santo Augusto VIII · Wind · 18 MW · Piaui
• Ventos de Santo Augusto VII · Wind · 18 MW · Pernambuco
• Ventos de Santo Augusto I · Wind · 18 MW · Pernambuco
• Ventos de Santo Augusto II · Wind · 28 MW · Pernambuco

Location

Coordinates -7.7599, -40.6733 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.