Brazil is investing in 34 new dams to be completed by 2021 to increase the generation of hydroelectricity by fifty percent.
The two biggest are:
the 7.5 billion dollar Jirau Dam.
and the Belo Monte project, to be completed by 2015 at a cost of 9 billion dollars, will produce 11,000 MW.
90% of power consumed by Brazil comes from the hydroelectric sector.
Itaipu power plant alone accounts for 25% of the Brazilian electricity generation with its 14000 MW capacity.
The biggest challenge is not finance or technology. It is the coalition of motivated western NGOs and the media who use the bogey of Amazon rain forest and environment. They carry out misleading propaganda and try to put obstacles in the way of Brazilian economic development.
The two biggest are:
the 7.5 billion dollar Jirau Dam.
and the Belo Monte project, to be completed by 2015 at a cost of 9 billion dollars, will produce 11,000 MW.
90% of power consumed by Brazil comes from the hydroelectric sector.
Itaipu power plant alone accounts for 25% of the Brazilian electricity generation with its 14000 MW capacity.
The biggest challenge is not finance or technology. It is the coalition of motivated western NGOs and the media who use the bogey of Amazon rain forest and environment. They carry out misleading propaganda and try to put obstacles in the way of Brazilian economic development.
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