Nuclear and Gas Generation
EDF is present in the hydro and gas power generation markets in South America. In Brasil, Norte Fluminense, a thermoelectric power plant, supplies 22% of the electricity consumed in Rio. EDF also owns in Brasil 51% of a 402 MW hydropower plant in Mato Grosso State. In Chile, EDF owns 50% of GMH, Generadora Metropolitana, with 750 MW of thermal generation and 480 MW Solar PV generation under construction.
EDF Group owns 75.5% of Framatome which is active in the nuclear industry in the North America. Framatome is an international leader in designing and supplying nuclear steam supply systems and nuclear equipment, services and fuel for high levels of safety and performance.
The North Fluminense Thermoelectric Power Plant has been one of EDF’s main assets in Brazil over the past ten years, demonstrating both impressive industrial and financial performance. The plant enables EDF to conserve and capitalize on its network and visibility in the Brazilian market.
Located in the city of Macaé, in the interior of the State of Rio de Janeiro, EDF Norte Fluminense is responsible for about 22% of the electric energy consumed in the Rio metropolitan area.
The Plant
As a thermal combined cycle plant, EDF NF, uses the natural gas produced in the Campos Basin and operates three generators driven by gas-burning turbines and a fourth unit driven by a steam turbine. In addition to improved economic performance, the production system is environmentally effective: the natural resource is passed as efficiently as possible, avoiding steps such as outgassing into the atmosphere at high temperatures (400°C). The plant also showcases the state of Rio de Janeiro’s first solar power plant – demonstrating EDF’s renewable energy capabilities, fulfilling the plant’s administrative electricity needs and creating a reduction of 250 tons of CO2 emissions per year.
Our Vision
EDF Norte Fluminense’s business vision goes beyond the search for operational excellence and profitability. The environmental, social and economic questions of the communities directly or indirectly influenced by its operations are the core of its corporate strategy. The company has clear commitments to the promotion of sustainable development – evidenced by its program of socio-environmental responsibilities and the plant’s photovoltaic panel roof. In its everyday operations, EDF Norte Fluminense has adopted socially responsible practices that permeate every interaction with employees, collaborators, suppliers, public authorities, academic and cultural institutions and non-governmental organizations. Find out more about our Code of Environmental Ethics and the Principles and Commitments of Private Electricity Generation Companies.
826 MWinstalled capacity2.5 millionconsumers served320 kWhphotovoltaic100%EDFIBIRITERMO was founded in 2001 through a partnership between Edison S.p.A., a major Italian electricity and gas company, and PETROBRAS, a Brazilian integrated energy company. The partnership was created to develop, construct, operate, maintain and perform the exploration of a thermoelectric natural gas combined cycle plant in the municipality of Ibirité in Minas Gerais.
50%Edison50%Petrobras226 MWgenerating capacity20-yearBOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) project