Anhanguera Hydro Power Project

The project is classified as a run-of-the-river hydropower plant and is located between the cities of São Joaquim da Barra and Guará, in São Paulo. Run-of-the-river plants are projects with small or no reservoir capacity, features that drastically reduce the environmental impacts of hydraulic projects, thus promoting sustainable infrastructure and supporting SDG 9: “building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation.”

The design, with three horizontal Kaplan turbines capable of receiving a water flow up to 50m³/s, makes the enterprise extremely efficient, even during water crises. This reflects the principle of SDG 6, which is to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,” balancing carefully water resource utilization and energy production.

It is noteworthy that CELAN maintains the environmental squad that designed the entire reforestation process and that, to this day, monitors the forest under restoration, even though this is no longer a requirement of government agencies. With this team, we encouraged several actions both in the reservoir and in the forest restoration of 177 hectares with native species.

The work of analyzing the behavior of the floristic structure and the community in terms of resilience, considering demographic data, turnover, recruitment, growth of forest species, mortality, species biology, and biomass production, will complete 17 years in 2025. The data collected on that was so innovative that it resulted in the publication of the article Waterline distance effects in the recovery of forest structure and soil organic matter 12 years after restoration in the Dutch journal Ecological Engineering, one of the most renowned in the field.

Evidence of this size and longevity is already providing unprecedented insights into the long-term functioning of reforested forests and their response to occasional disturbances, contributing again SDG 15.

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