Sources: Official Corpoelec documents leaked for this investigation.
Field reporting by El Pitazo / Production: ARI team
is the amount of added energy that each power plant supplies. This value is similar to the power consumption of La Guaira, Capital District, Miranda and Aragua.
2.359 MW
is the total population that would
benefit from these power plants.
This represents 17% of Venezuelans according to the 2011 National Census.
benefit from these power plants.
This represents 17% of Venezuelans according to the 2011 National Census.
4.743.000
are not enough to light a lightbulb
$4.856 BILLION
Corpoelec and PDVSA hired three Chinese companies to install five electric power plants in Venezuela. By August 2021, not one of them generated power. The government’s lack of maintenance caused the thermoelectric plants to slowly go dark