The record comes as hydro output hits a four-year low, with wind and solar mitigating drought impacts and avoiding a spike in fossil generation. Wind and solar produced more than a third of Brazil’s electricity for the first month on record, reaching a share of 34% in August 2025.
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From 2013, Brazil started to deploy wind energy on a large scale, and from 2017, it started to deploy solar energy on a large scale, to diversify its energy portfolio and avoid the problems arising from dependence on hydroelectricity.Overview has the largest electricity sector in Latin America. In 2024, Brazil added a substantial 10.9 GW of new power. .
At the end of 2021 Brazil was the 2nd country in the world in terms of installed (109.4 GW) and (15.8 GW), the 7th country in the world in terms of installed (21.1 GW) and th. .
Brazil, together with Chile, is the country with the highest access rate in Latin America. The power sector in Brazil serves more than 50 million customers, which corresponds to about 97% of the country's total house. .
Interruption frequency and duration are very close to the averages for the region. In 2005, the average number of interruptions per subscriber was 12.5, while duration of interruptions per subscriber was 16.5 hours.. .
The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MME) has the overall responsibility for policy setting in the electricity sector while , which is linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, is the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory.
[pdf] China’s Risen Energy is deploying containerized BESS units across Brazil’s northeast—enough to power 70,000 homes during blackouts [2]. Local startups are aggregating rooftop solar + storage into Brazil’s first VPP network, with 200MW planned by Q3 2026.
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