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Brazil 2010 Electricity Use Expands 7.8%, Lead By Industry

Brazil 2010 Electricity Use Expands 7.8%, Lead By Industry
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Δευ, 24 Ιανουαρίου 2011 - 18:46
Brazil's electricity consumption picked up 7.8% in 2010, on the back of an increase in industrial energy use amid the global economy's recovery, the EPE, the national energy research corporation, said Monday.
Brazil 's electricity consumption picked up 7.8% in 2010, on the back of an increase in industrial energy use amid the global economy's recovery, the EPE, the national energy research corporation, said Monday.

Electricity use totaled 419,016 gigawatt-hours last year, up from 388,688 gigawatt-hours in 2009, the EPE said.

Industrial use rose 10.6% in the period, the EPE said.

Energy use during the December rose 4.9% on year to 36,187 gigawatt-hours.

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