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The document was prepared by a working group led by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and, according to the government, its objective is the gradual recovery of storage levels in the reservoirs of hydroelectric plants in the country.
This Monday (the 11th), the government approved the resolution establishing the recovery plan for the reservoirs of Brazilian hydroelectric plants. The guidelines behind this plan were discussed at a meeting of the National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE), and its elaboration had been instituted by the Eletrobras privatization law. In April, a working group was set up to prepare the document.
Resolution must await the analysis and approval of the President of the Republic
The working group responsible for preparing the plan, called the Recovery Plan for the Regularization Reservoirs of Hydroelectric Power Plants in the Country (PRR), was coordinated by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), with the participation of the Energy Research Company (EPE), the National Electric System Operator (ONS) and the Ministry of Regional Development (MDR).
The federal government declared, in a note, that the plan will be favorable to the structuring of actions - among which some are already in progress - aimed at recovering the reservoirs of the regularization hydroelectric plants, through the carrying out of a multisectoral evaluation that takes into account both the national energy supply and the preservation of water uses.
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In addition, the government also informed that, among the foreseen goals, there is the gradual recovery of the storage levels of the reservoirs of the Brazilian hydroelectric plants.
Under this bias, it is worth noting that, between 2020 and 2021, Brazil faced its worst water crisis in 91 years, which threatened the reservoirs of hydroelectric plants and jeopardized the integrity of the National Interconnected System (SIN).
More details on the plan will be determined by the government in the coming days.
Within 210 days, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will establish and submit to public consultation the goals and global monitoring indicators of the plan. According to the document, the implementation will contribute to the development of actions by multiple competent institutions, with monitoring by the MME, EPE, MDR and ONS. The CNPE, in turn, will be in charge of evaluating the progress of the works annually.
Finally, the government points out that the initiative is of great importance, as it will help improve existing cooperation between assessments of the national electricity sector and the administration of the various uses of water. In this way, benefits will be provided to be noticed by all of society, in terms of water and energy security, which will stimulate Brazilian socioeconomic development and the creation of jobs and income.
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Hydroelectric power plants are essential to achieve the global targets for tackling climate change synthesized in the Paris Agreement, which intends to limit the increase in the planet's temperature to 2º C this century, but preferably to 1,5º C. The issue was evident in the debates which had the participation of Itaipu Binacional during COP 26, in Glasgow.
The subject was the central theme of the event “Development of hydroelectric energy: supplying renewable and environmentally correct energy, guaranteeing the availability of water in the long term and preventing natural disasters related to water”, organized by the government of Tajikistan and with the participation of experts from the International Hydroelectricity Association (IHA), International Energy Agency (IEA), International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), Itaipu Binacional, International Institute of Water Management and High Level Panel of Experts and Leaders in Water and Disasters.
