The use of small hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon

Manoel Fernandes M. Nogueira, Carlos Umberto da S. Lima and Raimundo Rosemiro P. Ribeiro

Renewable Energy, 1993, vol. 3, issue 8, 907-911

Abstract: Generating power with large hydroelectric plants and sending the electricity to supply users by networks of transmission lines is the present system adopted in Brazil. This system presents many difficulties in the Amazon rain forest.

Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(93)90049-M

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