Message
Ribeiro Pinto
Message from the President
Norte Energia, the largest 100% Brazilian hydroelectric plant, Belo Monte HPP It is responsible for providing renewable energy to millions of Brazilians, and for acting as an important agent for decarbonizing the energy matrix and sustainable regional development in the Amazon region.
Net energy generation in 2022 broke a record, reaching 36,767.325 MWh, 15.6% higher than production in 2021. This is due to the high availability of generating units and the high affluence from January to April and the availability of generation of the Belo Monte power plant, which, throughout the year, met more than 6.1% of the demand in the national energy market, reaching 12.7% in January, the period of greatest generation
During the year, we strengthened several aspects of the ESG agenda and sustainability practices in our management and recorded significant advances, such as the publication of our Human Rights Policy and our first Greenhouse Gas Inventory. With this report, we won the Gold Seal of the Brazilian GHG Protocol Program.
Among our objectives, we continue to comply with the environmental licensing conditions to operate Belo Monte and to promote initiatives and projects aimed at education and professional qualification, the generation of jobs and income, the preservation of the Amazon focusing on the Xingu river basin and the appreciation of the culture of the local population, especially indigenous peoples.
In this path, we made progress in 2022, strengthening Belo Monte's role as a company that seeks to generate shared value for all its stakeholders.
We expanded our understanding of the needs and expectations of the local population in relation to Belo Monte and how we can contribute to regional development, involving important governmental and non-governmental actors, such as the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) , Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (Sesai), Special Indigenous Health District (DSEI) and the Amazon Entrepreneurship Center (CEA).
Message from the Management
On a daily basis, we deal with the challenge of managing and operating Belo Monte, the only 100% Brazilian hydroelectric plant that uses the hydroelectric potential of the Xingu River to generate renewable energy for millions of Brazilians, thus playing an important role in planning the Brazilian electricity sector. In addition to this management challenge, there are many others, such as the commitments related to the ESG agenda, which continued throughout the year. For this challenge, we count on the consolidation of the Sustainability Committee, created in 2021, with the objective of strengthening our actions with all our stakeholders, especially with the audiences directly impacted by the plant’s operations: riverside populations and fishermen, indigenous peoples and the local community of cities around Belo Monte. Increasingly, we have become a Company committed and engaged with regional development and this can be noticed throughout this report with the presentation of all our initiatives developed throughout 2022, as well as the results achieved in the actions with each stakeholder that we impact.
The safety of the population and of the animal and plant species that inhabit the surroundings of the plant continues to be a priority in the operation, so much so that we periodically carry out maintenance on all the structures of the complex. In 2022, we reinforced monitoring with state-of-the-art technology, starting to use an autonomous surface boat equipped with sonar and sensors to collect data in underwater inspections. Therefore, we improved safety actions and the Emergency Action Plan (PAE) to ensure that the vicinity of the plant are always safe places to live.
The conviction that we need to strive more and more to leave a great legacy drives us to act beyond the constraints of the Basic Environmental Project (PBA) and the Basic Environmental Plan - Indigenous Component (PBA-CI) and promote initiatives that go beyond our obligations. For this, we seek to work together with the local public authorities, in order to guarantee the sustainability and continuity of our role as a contributing agent of transformation and sustainable regional development.