Nelson Motta
Reporter Agencia Brasil

Brasília – Presidential Chief of Staff (ministra da Casa Civil), Dilma Rousseff, has announced that beginning in May the government will accept tender offers for the construction of six new hydroelectric power plants.

Rousseff reported that two of the plants will be on the Madeira River (the Amazon River's main tributary) and the other four will be Mauá (361 MW), state of Paraná; Dardanelos (261 MW), state of Mato Grosso; Barra do Pomba (80 MW), state of Rio de Janeiro; and Cambuci (50MW) , also in Rio de Janeiro.

Translation: Allen Bennett