{"id":383429,"date":"2021-02-19T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=383429"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:43:08","slug":"electricity-production-in-brazil-has-almost-doubled-since-2001-but-remains-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/electricity-production-in-brazil-has-almost-doubled-since-2001-but-remains-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity production in Brazil has almost doubled since 2001, but remains clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Brazil&#8217;s annual electricity production increased from 329 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2001 to 626 TWh in 2019, an increase of 90%. Between 2016 and 2019, production grew by 8.1%, more than double the country\u2019s economic growth in the same period, which was 3.6% (GDP)<\/li>\n<li>The proportion generated by hydroelectric, wind, solar, and other renewable sources (in Brazil\u2019s case, this is mostly biomass) was 84% in 2001 and 83% in 2019<\/li>\n<li>Hydroelectricity accounted for 64% of the total in 2019, having fallen continuously over the period. The proportion generated from other renewable sources more than doubled, reaching 18.8%. Wind energy accounted for 8.9%, solar energy, 0.9%, and other renewables (mostly biomass), 9.0%<\/li>\n<li>Thermoelectricity produced from gas represented the second largest share of the total (9.4%), followed by coal (4.1%), nuclear (2.6%), and oil (1.3%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-0-tablet.png\" data-tablet_size=\"1900x1550\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-0-desktop.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-0-tablet.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-0-mobile.png\" \/>\n  <\/picture><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil produced the 7<sup>th<\/sup> most electricity in the world in 2019, at 626 TWh. China (7,445 TWh) and the USA (4,387 TWh) were top, accounting for 44% of the energy produced worldwide in 2019<\/li>\n<li>Of the 35 countries with at least 100 TWh produced in 2019, Brazil, with 83% generated from renewable sources, is second only behind Norway, which was 98% renewable<\/li>\n<li>The proportion of all the electricity produced worldwide that came from renewable sources was 26%, equal to the percentage in China<\/li>\n<li>Only five of the major producers\u2014Norway, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela (not included in the graph), and Sweden\u2014generate more than 50% of their electricity from renewable sources<\/li>\n<li>Globally, the most used source was coal, generating 9,824 TWh (37% of the total), followed by gas (6,298 TWh, 24%), hydroelectric (4,222 TWh, 16%) and nuclear (2,796 TWh, 10%). Other renewable sources accounted for just 10% of the total<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<picture data-tablet=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-1-tablet.png\" data-tablet_size=\"1900x1867\" alt=\"\">\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-1-desktop.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1920px)\" \/>\n    <source srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-1-tablet.png\" media=\"(min-width: 1140px)\" \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/011_Dados_297-1-mobile.png\" \/>\n  <\/picture>\n<p class=\"bibliografia separador-bibliografia\"><strong>SOURCES<\/strong>\u00a0 GDP: IBGE. Electricity production: Our World in Data, based at the University of Oxford. <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/electricity-production-by-source\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/electricity-production-by-source<\/a> (accessed on 10\/12\/2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electricity production in Brazil has almost doubled since 2001, but remains clean","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328],"tags":[225,227],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-383429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","tag-economy","tag-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384529,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383429\/revisions\/384529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383429"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=383429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}