Teles Pires Hydropower Plant Project Activity

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Teles Pires River, Cities of Paranaita (MT) and Jacareacanga (PA), Brazil

Teles Pires Hydropower Plant Project Activity

The primary objective of the Teles Pires Hydropower Plant Project Activity (hereafter referred to as the “Project” or “UHE Teles Pires”) is to help meet Brazil’s rising demand for energy due to economic growth and to improve the supply of electricity, while contributing to the environmental, social and economic sustainability by increasing renewable energy’s share of the total Brazilian (and the Latin America and the Caribbean region’s) electricity consumption. UHE Teles Pires consists of a greenfield project type where no renewable power plant was operated prior to the implementation of the Project and it reduces greenhouse gas emissions through renewable electricity generation supplied to the grid (“SIN” from the Portuguese Sistema Interligado Nacional). In the baseline scenario, this additional electricity would be generated by the existing and new grid-connected power plants. Therefore, the baseline scenario and the scenario prior to the implementation of the Project are the same. UHE Teles Pires is located in Paranaíta and Jacareacanga municipalities, between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. UHE Teles Pires has 1,820.025 MW installed capacity2 and 146.5 km2 reservoir area at the maximum-maximorum reservoir level (220.44 m), which of which 40.6 km² is part of the normal river bed and, therefore, the increased flooded area is 105.90 km². The Project encompasses five Francis turbines with 370.10 MW of nominal power each and five three-phase synchronous generators with nominal power 404.45 MVA each. The project started operations in 2015 and during the monitoring period from 01/02/2017 to 31/12/2018, the Project reduced 5,165,882 tCO2e.

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