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31/08/2010
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The Minister of Mines and Energy, Márcio Zimmermann, said today that the drought affecting much of the country does not affect the supply of electrical energy and said that until there is an expectation that next week, the generation of electricity in thermal power plants that use fossil fuels like coal and gas is reduced from the current 4000 MW to about 2500 MW.
The minister said that this should occur, despite the drought, because the country's main reservoirs, which are the Southeast, are operating at a rate equivalent to 92% of historical average of the last 80 years for the period. Thermal plants are triggered to prevent the dams from getting a very low level. Thus, the government maneuver using hydroelectric and thermoelectric plants in order to maintain the level in the reservoirs until the rains come, which should occur in the last quarter of the year.
The situation of the reservoirs was a theme of the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Electricity Sector (CMSE), closed in the late afternoon at the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
Source: A Tarde - Online
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