Itaipu, a photo from Alto Parana, South

Photographer's Note

The Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant, the largest in operation in the world, is a binational enterprise jointly developed by Brazil and Paraguay in the Paraná River. The installed power of the Plant is 12,600 MW (megawatts), with 18 generating units of 700 MW each. The production record of the year 2000 - 93.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) - was responsible for the supply of 95% of the electric power consumed in Paraguay and 24% of the total demand in the Brazilian market. With its installed power of 12,600 MW, it is well ahead of the plant classified in second place: Guri, in Venezuela, 10,200 MW. In third place is Grand Coulee, in the United States of America, with 6,500 MW, and in fourth is Sayano Shushenskaya, in Russia, with 6,400 MW installed power. The largest Brazilian power plant, Tucuruí, in Pará, has an installed power of 4,200 MW.

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sengir (4956) 2005-07-13 21:32 [Comment]

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danyy (0) 2005-07-15 4:07

Bonjour Luis,
une construction imposante que tu as su bien cadrer dans ton objectif.
J'aime la note qui accompagne cette photo, il manque toutefois quelques données bien utiles sur le matériel utilisé.
Dommage.
J'ai fait un WS pour donner un peu de punch aux lumières et aux couleurs.
Bien à toi.
Daniel.

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pamastro (7296) 2005-08-02 20:08

Since I was looking back at my photos of Grand Coulee I decided to see if Itaipu was shown here on TE. And here it is. These places are amazing. They're so huge. It's really impossible to capture their scale. You have to be there to see it.

But you can capture the lines of the dam and you did that well. The manmade terracing and lines of the dam are captured in a way that sort of speak electric to me. The tunnels feeding the turbines add a nice bit of contrast to the concrete. It could be played with a bit as in the workshop. And it definitely could use a crop. Most of the sky is unnecessary. It's too bad there wasn't something like a truck or car visible in here somewhere to show the scale. That would really get people to realize the scale of this place. But the lines are really nicely captured as I said adding a sort of electric feel to this biggest of power stations.