The metropolitan region of São Paulo (MRSP) has suffered from its worst drought in history, which started in 2013 and is not over yet in 2018. With 21.4 million inhabitants, the region has one of the largest water supply systems in the world, consisting of ten partially interlinked reservoir systems. Cantareira system is the largest, …
The Brazilian interconnected power system consists of a linked network of over 150 medium and large reservoirs, and a large set of small hydropower, thermal, and wind power plants. In Brazil, hydropower has been the predominant source of electrical energy supply, but the system has changed significantly over the last five years. From 2003 to …
Storage, Productivity, and Resilience in the Brazilian Hydropower System Leia mais »
The Brazilian interconnected power system consists of a linked network of over 150 medium and large reservoirs, and a large set of small hydropower, thermal, and wind power plants. Hydropower has been the predominant source of electrical energy supply in Brazil, with significant increasing participation share of run-of-river hydropower, and thermal and wind power plants. …
Improving the Management of Storage Reservoirs in the Brazilian Hydropower System Leia mais »
Hydropower has been the predominant source of electrical energy supply in Brazil, with significant increasing participation share of thermal and wind power plants. From 2000 to 2012, on average, 91% of Brazilian effective electric generation was provided by hydropower, while the reservoir system operated, on average, at 68% of the active storage. From 2013 to …
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Brazilian Hydrothermal System Leia mais »
