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Asset classes
- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Power Plant
Santa Cruz power station (Brazil)
288th-largest power plant in Brazil of 879 · top 28% worldwide (#8,183 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Furnas Centrais Elétricas
- Owner
- Âmbar Energia SA
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2023
Comparable power plants · Brazil · 879 ranked
- #1Itaipu hydroelectric plant14.0 GW · hydro
- #286Sol de Jana solar farm504 MW · solar
- #287Rio Do Vento 2 wind farm504 MW · wind
- #288Santa Cruz power station (Brazil)500 MW · gas
- #289Fótons de São Maurício solar farm500 MW · solar
- #290Gameleira Sol solar farm500 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Subestação Zona Oeste (Santa Cruz)
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 7.0 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- Thyssenkrupp CSA Siderurgica do Atlântico
- Substations in range
- 7
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Gerdau Cosigua Santa Cruz steel plant2.1 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Ternium Brasil Santa Cruz steel plant2.4 km · Iron & Steel Plant
- Atlântico power station2.7 km · Power Plant · 490 MW · oil
- Santa Cruz Cement Plant3.0 km · Cement Plant
- 500 kV line4.1 km · Transmission Line
- Subestação Zona Oeste (Santa Cruz)7.0 km · Substation / Converter
- Karkey 019 power station7.4 km · Power Plant · 116 MW · gas
- ORBIG Pipeline8.0 km · Pipeline
- Sepetiba Bay FSRU9.5 km · LNG Terminal · 2.7 Mtpa
- Karkey 013 power station9.6 km · Power Plant · 259 MW · gas
- Rio de Janeiro Cement Plant21 km · Cement Plant
- Subestação Baixada Fluminense25 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)