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 (%) 0.8  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.