Amazon 
Environment 
Trade 
National Due to its hydroelectric plants, the Amazon region generates 26% of all electricity consumed in the Brazilian territory. However, municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon have 1 million people who do not have access to electricity or who has access to it during only a few hours a day, through generators.
In addition, as they are not included in the National Interconnected System (NIS), other 3 million people in the region need to be supplied by diesel-powered thermoelectric plants, which are more expensive and more polluting options.
The delicate supply of electricity has consequences for the economic development of the region. According to a survey by Imazon (Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia), member of OCAA (Amazon Observatory on Trade and Environment), the underutilization of certain production chains means that the region participates in only 0.17% of the cocoa, black pepper, fish and other “forest products” market.
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