Monthly electricity consumption in Brazil by sector (GWh), in long format. This dataset combines the residential, commercial, and industrial SGS series by row-binding them; it does not calculate a total or otherwise transform their values.
Format
A tibble with monthly observations:
- date
Date of the first day of the month
- name_series
Sector identifier:
"electric_residential","electric_commercial", or"electric_industrial"- value
Electricity consumption in GWh
Source
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. (Eletrobras), disseminated by the Banco Central do Brasil through the Sistema Gerenciador de Séries Temporais (SGS). The component series are 1402 (commercial), 1403 (residential), and 1404 (industrial). See the official SGS metadata for series 1402, 1403, and 1404.
Details
The package snapshot was downloaded through 2025-12-31. BCB may revise historical observations and extend the series after that date. The residential series is also available in wide format as electric.
See also
electric for the residential-only wide-format series.