Hydropower in the Pan Amazon: Tucuruí and the Tocantins Cascade

Mongabay
Aug 16, 2023, 9:43 am234 pts
The oldest hydropower facility in the Brazilian Amazon is the Tucuruí D&R complex (8.4 GW) on the lower Tocantins River, about 200 kilometers south of its confluence with the Amazon River delta. The dam and power plant were built between 1976 and 1984, and its capacity was doubled in 2007; current plans call…

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