Brazil’s Hydropower Generation Returns as Historic Drought Eases

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 Santo Antonio hydropower plant on the Madeira River in the Amazon has even managed to generate some electricity during the drought this year after lessons learned from last year’s drought, the plant’s president Caio Pompeu Neto has told Reuters. Santo Antonio, operated by Latin America’s biggest power utility Eletrobras, has created…