Tag: Electrobras

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Heat wave in Brazil forces power cuts; to recover fragile system rates could increase by 60%

  

  Rolling blackouts swept across parts of Brazil as the grid operator ordered select power cuts to avoid a larger crisis, drawing attention to a fragile electric system that is buckling under the strains of record-breaking heat and dryness.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 06:04 UTC

  Green light for the construction of the world’s third largest dam in Brazil

  

  A Brazilian court on Thursday lifted an order that suspended construction of the massive but controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon rain forest, a project expected to face barrage of lawsuits by environmental critics.