The strategic decision of CBA to invest in power generation, so as to guarantee a minimum 50% self-generation ratio of the total electricity consumed in its plant, has taken the Company to systematically invest in the construction of hydroelectric power plants. Today, CBA owns 16 of such plants (13 operating and 3 other under construction), with a total generation capacity of 3.6 GWh/year.

The same level of importance attributed to the process engineering activities related to the generation of energy has prevailed also for environmental questions, bearing in mind not only minimizing possible impacts during the implementation of the power plants, but also transforming these enterprises in preservation poles of environment located around the reservoirs.

In this manner, the group of power plants along Juquiá and Iporanga rivers allowed the conservation of approximately 28,000 hectares of Atlantic Forest, one of the most important genetic green houses of biodiversity remaining in our territory. That area, added to the 2,300 hectares donated by CBA to the State Park of Jurupará, was transformed in one of the most well preserved regions of Atlantic Forest of the Ecological System of Serra do Mar, insuring the preservation of native species of vegetation and animals.