EN 
PT_BR 
In the first four months of 2023, installed power generation capacity expanded by 3,343.1 MW, informed ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency).
The centralized solar source represented 37.19% of the total (1,243.4 MW). The leadership went to wind farms, with 49.15% of the total (1,643 MW). 363.3 MW of thermoelectric plants and 72.2 MW of PCHs/CGHs also came into operation.
The month of April alone saw a growth of 593.0 MW concentrated in 27 plants, 11 of which were wind (153.5 MW), eight solar photovoltaic plants (324.0 MW), five thermoelectric plants (85.2 MW), one small hydroelectric plant (22.3 MW), one hydroelectric generating plant (8 MW). In January it was 1,284 MW, February 753 MW and March 713 MW.
A total of 104 plants began commercial operations in 2023, in 15 states across the five Brazilian regions. In descending order, the highest results to date are the states of Minas Gerais (1,057.8 MW), Rio Grande do Norte (687.4), Bahia (567.1 MW) and Piauí (314.9 MW). In terms of the month of April alone, Minas Gerais achieved the highest growth, with 231.0 MW.
For this year, the forecast for expansion in the generation matrix is 10.3 GW of installed capacity, which will represent the highest level of expansion of our capacity since the beginning of monitoring by the Agency, founded in December 1997.
Aneel foresees the entry into commercial operation of 298 projects in 2023. The Agency's estimate is that centralized solar and wind plants (renewable energy sources) will account for more than 90% of the expansion in Brazil's generation capacity, with emphasis on the states of Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte and Minas Gerais, which together account for more than 70% of the planned expansion.
Brazil ended 2022 with an expansion of 8,243.26 MW – the second largest recorded by Aneel since its foundation, behind only the 9,528 MW achieved in 2016.
Capacity installed
Brazil had 191,702.7 MW of inspected power until May 2, according to data from ANEEL's Generation Information System, SIGA, updated daily with data from plants in operation and projects granted in the construction phase. Of this total in operation, according to SIGA, 83.55% of the country's electrical matrix is considered renewable.
