ENGIE Brasil formerly Tractebel Energia is a major
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian utility company, headquartered in
Florianópolis,
Santa Catarina. It is one of the largest private
electricity
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producers in Brazil. Its 11 plants, six of them
hydroelectric and the remainder thermal, have an installed capacity of 9,000 MW. ENGIE Brasil's major shareholder is
ENGIE
Engie SA is a French multinational utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of energy transition, electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear, renewable energy and petroleum.
It ...
, the Paris-based utility company.
The company originated as Gerasul, short for Centrais Geradoras do Sul do Brasil SA ('Power plants of the South of Brazil' in English) which was sold to Tractebel by Brazil's Eletrosul in 1998. Gerasul held Eletrosul's power generation assets in the southern Brazilian states of
Santa Catarina,
Rio Grande do Sul,
Paraná and
Mato Grosso do Sul. Gerasul changed its name to Tractebel Energia in 2002.
ENGIE owns around 68% of ENGIE Brasil stocks, which is traded on
B3, the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange.
References
External links
The company's home page in Portuguese
Electric power companies of Brazil
Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange)
Companies based in Florianópolis
Engie
Energy companies established in 1998
Brazilian companies established in 1998
Brazilian subsidiaries of foreign companies
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