The reservoirs of hydroelectric plants in the Southeast and Midwest should end the month of November with 49.9% of capacity, estimated the National Electric System Operator (ONS) this Friday (28).
This would represent a level of more than 30 percentage points, higher than in the same period in 2021, when the country faced a severe shortage of rain, which led to the risk of energy rationing.
At the time, the Southeast and Midwest, the subsystem that concentrates the main storage lakes for hydroelectric plants, reached the beginning of the wet season with less than 20% capacity.
The ONS also projected that the region’s hydroelectric plants will receive rainfall equivalent to 96% of the historical average in November.
In the other regions, rainfall is expected at 96% of the historical average in the South, 45% in the Northeast and 173% in the North.
The agency also estimated a 0.6% drop in electricity load in Brazil in November compared to the same month in 2021.
Source: CNN Brasil
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