Suddenly Brazil is more Oil and Gas Dependent?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in Electricity Law and Regulation
Introduction
For those interested in Brazilian energy issues, it might be astonishing to analyse Brazil's new Energy Balance, the BEB 2003, based on 2002 data. The Ministry of Mines and Energy has just published the document. The most appealing curiosity in the BEB 2003 is with regard to the Brazilian electricity sector, whose share in the total Energy Balance declined substantially. One may ask whether the Brazilian Electricity Sector has shrunk by more than a half and whether this was a consequence of the electricity shortage in 2001. Brazil was always considered as having one of the ...