Eletrobras Cepel, the Electric Power Research Center was created in 1974 with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 (Ilha do Fundão). It's part of the Eletrobras

Eletrobrás

Eletrobras is a major Brazilian power utility. It's also Latin America's biggest power utility company, tenth largest in the world and is also the fourth largest clean energy company in the world. It is currently expanding its operations in the continent, as well as in Africa. The company's full...

 group of companies and has for 30 years worked on research and development (R&D) related to electric power

Electric power

Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...

 generation, transmission and distribution. It is considered the greatest research center on electric power of the Southern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

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Cepel has 30 laboratories, 20 of them are located in the headquarters in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 city. The other ten labs are located in Nova Iguaçú

Nova Iguaçu

Nova Iguaçu is a city in southeast Brazil in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. It was the state's second largest city until Mesquita was split off, and now is the fourth largest after São Gonçalo and Duque de Caxias. It lies northwest of the city of Rio de Janeiro, on the...

 (another city of Rio de Janeiro state), where works on high voltage

High voltage

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, high current, etc. are developed. C

Cepel is organized in five departments:

Name in Portuguese	Name in English	Acronym
Departamento de Automação de Sistemas	Systems Automation Department	DAS
Departamento de Sistemas Elétricos	Electric Systems Department	DSE
Departamento de Tecnologias Especiais	Special Technologies Department	DTE
Departamento de Instalações e Equipamentos	Equipment and Structure Department	DIE
Departamento de Otimização Energética e Meio Ambiente	Environment and Electric Optimization Department	DEA