Brazil

TABLE 1. POPULATION INFORMATION

              Average annual growth (%)
  1970 1980 1991 2000 2010 2012 * 2000 to 2010
Population (millions) 94.5 121.2 146.9 169.6 190.8 193.9 1.18
Population density (inhabitants/km2) 11.1 14.2 17.3 19.9 22.4 22.8 1.19
Urban population (% of total) 56.0 67.7 75.5 81.2 84.4 - 0.39
Area (1000 km2) 8,515.7

TABLE 2. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)

              Average annual growth (%)
  1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2011 2000 to 2011
GDP (millions of current US$) 469,318 770,350 644,984 882,439 2,143,921 2,475,066 13.0
GDP (millions of constant 2011 US$) * 1,314,727 1,529,207 1,689,232 1,937,916 2,409,227 2,475,066 3.53
GDP per capita (current US$) 3,202 4,849 3,766 4,812 11,094 12,696 11.7

TABLE 3. ESTIMATED ENERGY RESERVES

 Source1 Oil Natural Gas Coal2 Hydraulic3 Uranium4
 Unit 103 m3 106 m3 106 t GW t U3O8
Measured/Indicated/ Inventoried  2,271,490 434,376 10,061 108,8 177,500
Inferred/Estimated 2,511,140 472,155 22,240 28,1 131,870
Total  4,782,630 906,531 32,301 136,9 309,370
Oil Equivalent5
(103 toe)
2,026,169 431,335 2,746,520 81,949 1,254,681
1 Not including other renewable sources, besides Hydraulic.
2 Considers recovery of 70% and heating value of 3,900 kcal/kg.
3 Based on capacity factor of 55%. The oil equivalent value refers to one year generation.
4 Only losses due to mining and beneficiation are considered. The plutonium reprocessing was not considered.
5 Calculated using only measured, indicated and inventoried reserves.

TABLE 5. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND INSTALLED CAPACITY

Energy values are in 103 GWh (except where indicated) Annual Average Growth Rate (%)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006 to 2011 Part % (2011)
Electricity Production
- Total 419.3 445.0 463.1 463.0 515.8 532.9 4.9 100,0
- Fossil Fuel (1) 35.7 33.9 51.1 31.1 60.8 48.5 6.3 9.1
- Hydro 348.8 374.0 369.6 389.9 403.3 428.6 4.2 80.4
- Nuclear 13.8 12.4 14.0 13.0 14.5 15.7 2.6 2.9
- Biomass (2) 14.4 17.2 19.2 20.6 31.5 32.2 17.5 6.0
- Wind 0.3 0.7 1.2 1.2 2.2 2.7 55.2 0.5
- Others 6.3 6.9 8.1 7.2 3.5 5.2 - 1.0
Capacity values are in 103 MW(e) (except where indicated)
Capacity of electrical plants
- Total 96.3 100.4 102.9 106.6 113.3 117.1 4.0 100.0
- Hydro 72.0 74.9 74.9 75.5 77.1 78.4 1.7 67.0
- Thermal 20.4 21.2 23.0 25.4 29.7 31.2 8.8 26.6
- Nuclear 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 1.7
- Small Hydro 1.7 1.9 2.6 3.1 3.6 4.1 19.3 3.5
- Wind 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.9 1.4 47.6 1.2

TABLE 6. ENERGY RELATED RATIO

  Annual Average Growth Rate (%)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2006 to 2011
Energy consumption per capita (toe/capita) (1) 1.24 1.29 1.35 1.29 1.41 1.42 2.75
Electricity per capita (1) (kWh/capita) 2,300 2,413 2,482 2,454 2,703 2,770 3.79
Electricity consumption/Energy consumption (%) 15.9 16.1 15.8 16.3 16.5 16.8 --
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 3.29 2.79 3.02 2.81 2.81 2.95 --
Ratio of external dependency (%) (2) 8.48 8.24 8.79 4.47 7.66 8.55 --
Load factor of electricity plants (%) 2012
Total 47.6
Thermal 17.9
Hydro 59.6
Nuclear 91.2
(1) The population values for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 were obtained with interpolation.
(2) Net import / Total energy consumption.
Source for population data: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistic
Sources for energy data: (1) Brazilian Energy Balance of the Ministry of Mines and Energy and (2) 2012 Statistical Yearbook of Electric Energy of the Ministry of Mines and Energy

TABLE 6: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31. DECEMBER 2014

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
2014
ANGRA-1 PWR 609 Operational ELETRONU WH 1971-05-01 1982-03-13 1982-04-01 1985-01-01 88.5
ANGRA-2 PWR 1275 Operational ELETRONU KWU 1976-01-01 2000-07-14 2000-07-21 2001-02-01 88.6
ANGRA-3 PWR 1245 Under Construction ELETRONU KWU 2010-06-01 2016-01-01
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table 7 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.