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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
Hélio Valgas Solar Power Plant
291st-largest power plant in Brazil of 879 · top 28% worldwide (#8,264 of 29,849)
- Operator
- Solatio Brasil Gestão de Projetos
- Owner
- Solatio Energia
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Fuel
- solar
- Commissioned
- 2023
Comparable power plants · Brazil · 879 ranked
- #1Itaipu hydroelectric plant14.0 GW · hydro
- #289Fótons de São Maurício solar farm500 MW · solar
- #290Gameleira Sol solar farm500 MW · solar
- #291Hélio Valgas Solar Power Plant500 MW · solar
- #292Icó solar farm500 MW · solar
- #293Pedra do Reino (Pernambuco) solar farm500 MW · solar
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Subestação Várzea da Palma 1
- Its voltage
- 345 kV
- Distance
- 7.6 km
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
- Walter Froes solar farm2.0 km · Power Plant · 100 MW · solar
- Subestação Várzea da Palma 17.6 km · Substation / Converter
- Belvedere PV Solar Power Plant9.3 km · Power Plant · 138 MW · solar
- Vereda solar farm12 km · Power Plant · 190 MW · solar
- Subestação Várzea da Palma 415 km · Substation / Converter
- Subestação Pirapora 224 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)