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- 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
Presidente Médici Candiota power station
429th-largest power plant in Brazil of 879 · top 38% worldwide (#11,148 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Âmbar Energia SA
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 350 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 2011
Comparable power plants · Brazil · 879 ranked
- #1Itaipu hydroelectric plant14.0 GW · hydro
- #427Padre Bernardo solar farm350 MW · solar
- #428Sertão Solar Barreiras Complex350 MW · solar
- #429Presidente Médici Candiota power station350 MW · coal
- #430Baixo Iguaçu hydroelectric plant350 MW · hydro
- #431Santo Anchieta (Antiga Lagoa do Sol) solar farm349 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Subestação Candiota 2
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 2.2 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 525 kV
- Line operator
- Chimarrão Transmissora de Energia
- Substations in range
- 3
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
- Presidente Médici Candiota power station21 m · Power Plant · 446 MW · coal
- 500 kV line2.2 km · Transmission Line
- Subestação Candiota 22.2 km · Substation / Converter
- Candiota 2 - Guaíba 3 525KV #22.3 km · Transmission Line
- Candiota 2 - Guaíba 3 525KV #12.3 km · Transmission Line
- Subestação Candiota2.3 km · Substation / Converter
- Candiota Cement Plant3.9 km · Cement Plant
- Candiota Coal Mine4.2 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Seival Coal Mine12 km · Coal / Uranium Mine
- Pinheiro Machado Cement Plant12 km · Cement Plant
- Pampa Sul power station14 km · Power Plant · 345 MW · coal
- Subestação UTE Pampa Sul14 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)