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According to the 2020 indices, there is a great possibility that the Itaipu hydroelectric plant will reach a new energy productivity record break later this year
With the mark of 55 million megawatt-hours (MWh) produced in 2020, the Itaipu hydroelectric plant – the largest generator of clean and renewable energy on the planet – reached a new record in 20 last Sunday (2020). as high as this year. Angra 3 nuclear power plant works: accumulators manufactured by Nuclep are on their way to the plant
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Month after month, the Itaipu hydroelectric plant continues to break historical productivity records – the ratio between the amount of energy generated and the available water, that is, water has never been so well used at the plant.
Until September 20, 2020, the average productivity (which shows the relationship between the amount of energy generated with the volume of water that passed through the generating units, that is, the turbined flow) was 1,0888 average megawatts per cubic meter per second (MWmed/m3/s), compared to the previous record of 1,0764 MWmed/m³/s in 2019.
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According to the observation of the Brazilian director general of Itaipu, general Joaquim Silva e Luna, the performance of the hydroelectric plant in this pandemic year will be fundamental for Brazil to have energy availability to boost the resumption of economic growth. “Itaipu is doing its part. We make our contribution with what we do best, which is generating quality electricity for Brazil and Paraguay.”
According to the 2020 indices, there is a great possibility that the Itaipu hydroelectric plant will reach a new energy productivity record break later this year
For the plant's Technical Board, among the reasons for the successful use of raw material, water, extracting the maximum possible energy generation from it, is mainly the relationship between production management and assets in the binational.
“In a year of numerous hydrological difficulties and with a pandemic that greatly restricts our day to day at the plant, the Technical Board teams, especially those in Operation and Maintenance, do their best to maintain availability, reliability, productivity and maintenance plans in day,” says Itaipu Maintenance Superintendent Marco Aurélio Siqueira Mauro. “This effort is rewarded with the production of more than 55 million MWh until September. Few installations exceed this number in the year.”
Dimensioned production of the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant
The hydroelectric plant's partial production in 2020 (the 55 million MWh registered until this Sunday) would be enough to meet the electricity consumption of the entire world for 21 hours; from Brazil for a month and 12 days; the city of São Paulo for two years; from Paraguay for three years and 11 months; from the state of Paraná for one year and nine months; or 95 cities the size of Foz do Iguaçu for one year. (From Itaipu Binacional).
