Brazil
TABLE 1. ESTIMATED ENERGY RESERVES
Estimated available energy sources | ||||||
Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewables | ||||
Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium3 |
Hydraulic2 |
Other Renewable |
|
Source | Coal1 | Oil | Natural Gas | |||
Unit | 106 t | 103 m3 | 103 m3 | t U3O8 | GW | - |
Measured/Indicated/ Inventoried | 25 742 | 2 572 700 | 471 148 | 177 500 | 110.38 | - |
Inferred/Estimated | 6 535 | 2 477 130 | 388 689 | 131 870 | 25.7 | - |
Total | 32 277 | 5 049 830 | 859 837 | 309 370 | 136.0 | - |
Oil Equivalent4 (103 toe) | 7 027 666 | 2 289 703 | 467 850 | 1 254 681 | 83 082 | - |
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) | 294 | 96 | 20 | 53 | 4 | - |
TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2014* | 2000 to 2014 | |
Energy consumption** | |||||||
- Total | 67230 | 115944 | 143276 | 185767 | 238697 | 321959 | 4.0 |
- Solids*** | 34241 | 36673 | 38181 | 34995 | 40353 | 40964 | 1.1 |
- Liquids | 25663 | 55689 | 60459 | 83113 | 101803 | 134812 | 3.5 |
- Gases | 170 | 2189 | 6238 | 15130 | 25493 | 48662 | 16.9 |
- Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 51 | 618 | 4613 | 1747 | 7.7 |
- Hydro | 3422 | 11082 | 17770 | 26168 | 29021 | 32116 | 1.5 |
- Other Renewables |
3824 | 10311 | 20577 | 24333 | 37414 | 63658 | 7.1 |
Energy production | |||||||
- Total | 49627 | 66404 | 107632 | 153334 | 200522 | 272633 | 4.2 |
- Solids*** | 32966 | 33567 | 30452 | 25667 | 30903 | 27787 | 0.6 |
- Liquids | 8161 | 9255 | 32550 | 63849 | 84300 | 116705 | 4.4 |
- Gases | 1254 | 2188 | 6233 | 13185 | 17575 | 31661 | 6.5 |
- Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 51 | 132 | 1309 | 681 | 12.4 |
- Hydro | 3422 | 110823 | 17770 | 26168 | 29021 | 32116 | 1.4 |
- Other Renewables |
3824 | 10311 | 20577 | 24333 | 37414 | 63683 | 7.1 |
Net import (Import - Export) | 19299 | 47651 | 36969 | 32323 | 40184 | 51383 | 3.4 |
- Total | 68926 | 114055 | 114601 | 185767 | 240706 | 324016 | 4.1 |
TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND INSTALLED CAPACITY
Average annual growth rate (%) | ||||||||
1974 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2006 | 2014 | 2000 to 2014* | |
Capacity of electrical plants (MW) | ||||||||
- Thermal | 4409 | 5823 | 6835 | 10623 | 15809 | 20372 | 24149 | 6.0 |
- Hydro | 13724 | 27649 | 45558 | 61063 | 71059 | 73679 | 84095 | 2.3 |
- Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 657 | 1966 | 2007 | 2007 | 1990 | 0.1 |
- Wind | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 29 | 237 | 4888 | 48.6 |
- Geothermal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- other renewable(2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3932 | 4337 | 18791 | 19.0 |
- Total | 18133 | 33427 | 53050 | 73671 | 92865 | 96294 | 133913 | 4.4 |
Electricity production (GW.h) | 2006-2014 | |||||||
- Thermal | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 35741 | 50957 | 5.2 |
- Hydro | 65679 | 128907 | 206708 | 304.403 | 337.457 | 348805 | 403251 | 2.1 |
- Nuclear | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | NA | 13754 | 15378 | 0.1 |
- Wind | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 93 | 237 | 12210 | 30.2 |
- other renewable | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 20694 | 31525 | 6.2 |
- Total (1) | 71699 | 139383 | 222820 | 348921 | 403031 | 419337 | 590479 | 5.0 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIO
1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2014* | |
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) | 29.3 | 39.3 | 41.9 | 44.4 | 49.0 | 63.4 |
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) | 478 | 1 139 | 1 713 | 2 251 | 2 374 | 3 092 |
Electricity production/Energy production (%) | 7.9 | 18.0 | 17.8 | 19.6 | 17.3 | 18.6 |
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) | 28.7 | 41.5 | 26.2 | 18.0 | 18.3 | 17.8 |
TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2017
Reactor Unit | Type | Net Capacity [MW(e)] |
Status | Operator | Reactor Supplier |
Construction Date |
First Criticality Date |
First Grid Date |
Commercial Date |
Shutdown Date |
UCF for 2017 |
ANGRA-1 | PWR | 609 | Operational | ELETRONU | WH | 1971-05-01 | 1982-03-13 | 1982-04-01 | 1985-01-01 | 74.3 | |
ANGRA-2 | PWR | 1275 | Operational | ELETRONU | KWU | 1976-01-01 | 2000-07-14 | 2000-07-21 | 2001-02-01 | 97.0 | |
ANGRA-3 | PWR | 1245 | Under Construction | ELETRONU | KWU | 2010-06-01 | 2024-09-03 | 2024-09-13 | 2025-01-01 |
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). | |||||||||||
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report. |