Electricity generation in Brazil
Annual electricity production, fuel mix and historical observations for Brazil, with links to its grid operators, electricity market and power stations.
Reference year: 2024. Published snapshot, not live output. Energy is reported in terawatt-hours (TWh).
How much electricity does Brazil produce?
Brazil reported 745.7 TWh of domestic electricity generation in 2024. Among the reported source categories, hydro produced the most electricity: 413.2 TWh.
Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.
Electricity mix 2024
Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)
Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.
Renewable share uses domestic generation as its denominator. Low-carbon generation includes renewables and nuclear; nuclear is not renewable. Missing fuel categories remain “No data”, and rounded source values need not sum exactly to the reported total.
Generation is not consumption or installed capacity
The source separately reports electricity demand of 757.3 TWh for 2024. Domestic generation is not electricity consumed after trade and losses. The demand series is a separate source measure, not a calculated import balance. Power-plant ratings in megawatts (MW) measure capacity; annual production in TWh measures energy.
Searching for “energy production in Brazil”? This profile answers the electricity part of that question. Transport fuels, heat and total primary-energy production are outside this dataset.
Annual electricity generation in Brazil
Every row retains its own reporting year. 2024 remains the common-year comparison even where a newer observation exists. Missing observations are not interpolated.
| Year | Generation (TWh) | Renewable (%) | Low-carbon (%) | Demand (TWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 750.5 | 86.6 | 88.7 | 762.1 |
| 2024 | 745.7 | 87.3 | 89.5 | 757.3 |
| 2023 | 708.1 | 89 | 91.1 | 723.2 |
| 2022 | 677.2 | 87.7 | 89.9 | 690.1 |
| 2021 | 656.4 | 77.4 | 79.6 | 679.5 |
| 2020 | 628.8 | 83.2 | 85.4 | 653.5 |
| 2019 | 633.3 | 81.4 | 83.9 | 658.3 |
| 2018 | 601.4 | 82.4 | 85 | 636.4 |
| 2017 | 589.3 | 79.3 | 81.9 | 625.7 |
| 2016 | 578.9 | 80.5 | 83.2 | 619.7 |
| 2015 | 581.2 | 74.2 | 76.7 | 615.6 |
| 2014 | 590.6 | 73.3 | 75.9 | 624.3 |
| 2013 | 570.8 | 76.8 | 79.5 | 611.2 |
| 2012 | 552.5 | 82.6 | 85.5 | 592.8 |
| 2011 | 531.8 | 87.2 | 90.1 | 567.7 |
| 2010 | 515.8 | 84.8 | 87.6 | 550.5 |
| 2009 | 466.2 | 89.1 | 91.8 | 506.2 |
| 2008 | 463.2 | 84.3 | 87.3 | 505.4 |
| 2007 | 445.2 | 88.2 | 91 | 484 |
| 2006 | 419.5 | 86.8 | 90 | 460.6 |
| 2005 | 403.1 | 87.1 | 89.6 | 442.1 |
| 2004 | 387.5 | 86 | 89 | 424.9 |
| 2003 | 364.4 | 87.2 | 90.8 | 402.6 |
| 2002 | 345.7 | 85.7 | 89.7 | 382.3 |
| 2001 | 328.6 | 84.3 | 88.6 | 366.4 |
| 2000 | 348.9 | 89.5 | 91.2 | 391.9 |
Interactive Brazil trends and country rankings
Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.
Brazil: hydropower alongside expanding wind and distributed solar
Reporting scope: Brazilian Energy Balance 2025; base year 2024.
Electricity and total energy have different mixes
EPE's 2025 balance reports 88.2% renewables in Brazil's total electric power supply in 2024, compared with 50% in total energy supply. Transport fuels and other energy uses belong to the latter measure. Neither percentage is the share of renewable station records on this map.
Source: EPE: Brazilian Energy Balance 2025 summary, 2024 observations.
Small generators matter outside a plant atlas
EPE reports wind and solar together supplying 23.7% of domestic electricity generation in 2024 and includes distributed micro and minigeneration in its statistics. A global station inventory can miss these installations. Use national generation data to compare the mix, and the atlas to examine individual reported locations and ownership.
Source: EPE: centralised and distributed electricity generation.
Understand the data
By Power Stations Worldwide · Context sources checked · Review scope. This date does not update the underlying plant inventory or electricity series.
Compare Brazil with its region
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