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Wasser Kraft

Hydro power plant in Misiones, Brazil. Approximate location -26.4464, -53.405.

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Wasser Kraft is a 1 MW hydro power plant in Misiones, Brazil. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,401 homes (estimated). It ranks #2306 of 2,549 Brazil power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2009, it is around 17 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 51.8% of Brazil's electricity; the national grid averages 110 gCO₂/kWh (88.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1MW installed capacity
1,401homes powered (est.)
2009commissioned (~17 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id BRA0029589.

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

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 26.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.5°Cannual mean temp
467heating degree-days (base 18°C)
628cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
576 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 23 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 18 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 14 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 17 °CSO: 19 °CON: 20 °CND: 22 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 81% 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: 20/100 — 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 #618 largest hydro power plant of 701 in Brazil by capacity.

Brazil has 701 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 98,039 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -26.4464, -53.405 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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