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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Interconnector
Brazil (CW) – Brazil (WE) interconnection
17th-largest interconnector in Brazil of 21 · top 56% worldwide (#392 of 704)
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 694 MW
- Length
- 1,907 km
- Connects to
- Brazil
- Geometry
- Schematic — node to node, not a surveyed route
Comparable interconnectors · Brazil · 21 ranked
- #1Brazil (CW) – Brazil (SE) interconnection30.8 GW
- #15Brazil (CW) – Brazil (NE) interconnection (planned)926 MW
- #16Brazil (CW) – Brazil (SE) interconnection (planned)847 MW
- #17Brazil (CW) – Brazil (WE) interconnection694 MW
- #18Brazil (CN) – Brazil (NW) interconnection (planned)694 MW
- #19Brazil (SO) – Uruguay interconnection570 MW
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Brazil (SE) – Brazil (WE) interconnection0 m · Interconnector · 6.3 GW
- 500 kV line6.5 km · Transmission Line
- Santo Antônio hydroelectric plant (Rondônia)6.6 km · Power Plant · 3.6 GW · hydro
- Termo Norte power station10 km · Power Plant · 413 MW · gas
- Porto Velho Cement Plant15 km · Cement Plant
- HVDC Rio Madeira - Bipole 118 km · Transmission Line
- Subestação Coletora Porto Velho18 km · Substation / Converter
- HV HVDC line18 km · Transmission Line
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Existing and planned capacities between Brazilian provinces are extracted from Deng et al., 2022, filtered and aggregated to inter-regional level following the OSeMOSYS Global representation.
SOURCE: Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0)