SAO PAULO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Brazil has resumed energy exports to Argentina and Uruguay from hydroelectric plants that have excess water in their reservoirs due to heavy rains and the government is ...

The Belo Monte hydropower plant, located in the Brazilian Amazon, is one of the largest in the world. It was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...

A worsening drought across Brazil that has stoked record wildfires and withered crops now threatens the country’s power supply, raising the risk of higher prices and blackouts in South America’s ...

Brazil bet big on a mega river dam using old data, but climate change is leaving its massive turbines high and dry.

17 September 2008 – Alstom Hydro has been awarded a major contract, valued at €500m ($711m), for the supply of electro-mechanical and hydro-mechanical equipment for the Santo Antà´nio hydropower plant ...

One of the biggest hydropower plants in South America is ramping up electricity generation as the historic drought in the Amazon in September and October has eased and the rainy season has begun. The ...

SAO PAULO(AP) — The Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the world’s largest, was designed to channel water from the Xingu River in a way that would avoid the need for large ...