Brasília, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Paraná and Rondônia
Products
Power generation
Services
Electricity distribution Electric power transmission
Parent
Eletrobras
Website
furnas.com.br
Eletrobras Furnas (Furnas – Centrais Elétricas SA) is a regional power utility and a major subsidiary of Eletrobras. The company generates or transmits electricity to 51% of households in Brazil and more than 40% of the nation's electricity passes through their grid. The company has a generating capacity of 10,050 MW which corresponds to 10% of Brazil's electrical production.
EletrobrasFurnas (Furnas – Centrais Elétricas SA) is a regional power utility and a major subsidiary of Eletrobras. The company generates or transmits...
The Furnas Dam (Portuguese: Usina Hidrelétrica de Furnas) is a hydroelectric dam in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil. A small settlement was built near...
South America. It was founded in 1974 by Eletrobras and its subsidiaries: Chesf, Eletronorte, Eletrosul and Furnas. Cepel has 30 laboratories, 20 of them...
sixth largest in Brazil and has the largest installed capacity of EletrobrásFurnas' power plants. Between 1963 and 1965, a consortium of U.S., Canadian...
capacity. The dam creates the largest reservoir by volume in Brazil. EletrobrásFurnas began studies of the upper Tocantins River in 1981 and proposed constructing...
"Lista de Furnas [pt]", a list detailing a corruption and money laundering scheme involving the state-owned electricity company, EletrobrasFurnas. He received...
2014. "Hydroelectric Power DA SERRA MESA (1.275MW)" (in Portuguese). EletrobrasFurnas. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 18 September...
and a short spur from it leading to a communications tower of the EletrobrasFurnas electricity company reaches 2,662 metres (8,734 ft); these are the...
megawatts (1,410,000 hp) installed capacity. Owned and maintained by EletrobrásFurnas, they completed studies for the dam in 1962. Construction began in...
1973, the dam and hydroelectric power plant have been operated by EletrobrasFurnas. Peixoto was the first of a cascade of nine dams to be built on the...
megawatts (1,930,000 hp) installed capacity. Owned and maintained by EletrobrásFurnas, the dam was their fourth power plant constructed. Construction began...
of corruption and money laundering in the regional power utility EletrobrásFurnas. Twenty-five search and seizure warrants were served at the company's...
(165 sq mi). It was full in 2001. The operating contract is 70% owned by EletrobrasFurnas. Installed capacity is 212 MW, with guaranteed output of 92 MW. It...
owned by Eletronuclear, a subsidiary of the state-owned (Mixed economy) Eletrobrás. Brazil needs to add 6000 MW of capacity every year in order to satisfy...
Minas e Energia ELETROBRAS Group 23/04/1969 23/12/1968 116 FURNAS Centrais Elétricas S.A. FURNAS Ministério de Minas e Energia ELETROBRAS Group 28/02/1957...
Dam, Tucuruí Dam, Porto Primavera Dam, Balbina Dam, Serra da Mesa Dam and Furnas Dam are all larger than the one for Itaipu, but have a smaller installed...