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General comment Additional remarks: Diesel consumption derived from flow diagram in Pires, A.C. (2012) 2012Z.
The LCI covers all relevant process steps / technologies for the construction and operation of an specific hydropower plant in Brazil. The inventory is based on data from power plant construction reports of Eletronorte. The dam construction started in 1975. The first equipments were installed in 1984. New equipments were installed in 2010.
The current installed capacity of energy production of the overall system is 8.37 GW, which represented around 10% of the total installed capacity in Brazil.
The estimate for the Tucuruí average electricity production is 7.21E04 GWh/year, considering a 60 years life span, which was the time frame considered for LCI modeling purposes. |
