Rio de Janeiro – The amount of energy generated in Brazil in July this year was down 0.8% from the preceding month. According to figures issued today (2nd) by the National Electric System Operator (ONS, in the Portuguese acronym), 57,700 average megawatts (MW) were generated in July.
The decline as against June was mostly a consequence of the “slowdown of the industrial sector, due to uncertainty regarding the international economic crisis scenario,” according to the ONS.
The sharpest decline in power generation took place in the Southeast-Midwest Subsystem, down 1%. The Northeast and North subsystems were down 0.9% and 0.3%, respectively. The South Subsystem generated the same amount of power as in June.
As against July 2011, however, there was a 2.2% increase in power generation. In the last 12-month period, power generation was up 3.7%.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum