General comment The LCI covers all relevant process steps / technologies for the construction of an specific hydropower plant in Brazil. The inventory is based on data from interviews and power plant construction reports of Itaipu Binacional. The dam construction started in 1975, and finished during 1986. The first turbine began to operate some years earlier, in 1984.
The current installed capacity of energy production of the overall system is 14.0 GW, which represented around 15% of the total installed capacity in Brazil (to notice that the energy produced is consumed in Brazil and in Paraguai).
The estimate for the Itaipu average electricity production is 8.92E04 GWh/year, considering a 100 years life span. |