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MINEM reported that, during that month, the generation with RER was 574 GWh, that is, 74% more than that recorded in the same period in 2023The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) reported that the total production of electric energy registered nationwide in August 2024, including Isolated Systems and the National Interconnected Electric System (SEIN), amounted to 5,350 gigawatt hours (GWh), which meant an increase of 3% compared to the same month in 2023.
Regarding the plants with non-conventional renewable energies, such as wind and solar, in the month of analysis they registered 413 GWh and 111 GWh, respectively, equivalent in both cases to increases of around 129% and 27%, compared to the eighth month of last year.
At the end of August 2024, national electricity generation with non-conventional renewable energy resources (RER) (solar, wind, bagasse and biogas) accumulated a production of 574 GWh, showing a significant increase of 74% over what was recorded in the same period of 2023.
It is also detailed that the energy generated with renewable resources represents 10.7% of national production during the period analyzed, which constitutes an expectant increase, since in August 2023 it represented 6.3%.
The report called Main indicators of the electricity sector at the national level indicates that, of the total registered, 5,203 GWh (97%) was generated for the electricity market and 148 GWh (3%) was the amount of self-generated energy for the own use of the activities of industrial, mining, oil companies, among others.
Technicians from the General Directorate of Electricity (DGE) of the MINEM pointed out that the increase in electricity production at the national level, compared to what was produced in August 2023, is based, among other aspects, on the growing economic activity of large industries that operate in the various regions of the country.
In relation to the sources of electricity generation, the report indicates that hydroelectric plants accumulated 2,037 GWh in the period analyzed, that is, 17% more than what was generated in the same period of 2023.
While thermal units that only use natural gas as a resource, produced 2,626 GWh, that is, 8% less than 2023, in the same period analyzed.
