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São Miguel

São Miguel: an isolated power system run by EDA, with no cable to other islands or to the mainland. Figures are annual, from official documents, each with its reporting period.

Latest official data Real-time electricity data is not currently published through a verified public source. The values shown are the latest available official data.

Annual generation

Official annual electricity generation – 2020

Total
422,146MWh
54.9 % of the archipelago's generation
Renewable share
49.6%
geothermal, hydro, wind, solar, waste, biogas
Thermal (fuel oil, diesel): 212799 MW Geothermal: 169448 MW Hydro: 23848 MW Wind: 15030 MW 422 GWh
By sourceMWhshare
Thermal (fuel oil, diesel) 212,799 50.4 %
Geothermal 169,448 40.1 %
Hydro 23,848 5.6 %
Wind 15,030 3.6 %
Solar PV 702 0.2 %
Biogas 320 0.1 %

Reporting period: 2020 [source]

Annual consumption and peak

Energy delivered to the grid · 2023
464.2GWh
Annual peak load · 2023
76.6MW
reached on 17/08/2023
20192020202120222023
Energy delivered to the grid440.4422.1442.9453.4464.2
Annual peak load72.469.072.476.976.6

Billed consumption per island is not published: EDA gives it only for the region. Energy delivered to the grid is consumption plus losses, from EDA's management report. We do not estimate them.

Reporting period: 2023 · 2019–2023 [source]

The archipelago: nine systems with no link between them

Santa Maria Santa Maria São Miguel São Miguel Terceira Terceira Graciosa Graciosa São Jorge São Jorge Pico Pico Faial Faial Flores Flores Corvo Corvo

No cable links the islands to each other or to the mainland: each one generates everything it uses. Click an island to open its page.

Installed capacity

MW

Actual, at 2020-12

Thermal (fuel oil, diesel)98.1
Geothermal29.6
Hydro5.0
Wind9.0
Biogas1.1
Total142.8

Reporting period: 2020-12 [source]

Planned for 2024-12: investment plan, NOT achieved

Thermal (fuel oil, diesel)98.1
Geothermal29.6
Hydro5.0
Wind13.6
Solar PV4.0
Biogas1.1
Total151.4

Reporting period: 2024-12 · forecast [source]

Capacity at generator level in EDA's plants. The right-hand column is the 2022–2024 investment plan as approved; it does not say what was built.

Grid quality

low voltage, by quality zone

Continuity indicators from the annex of EDA's annual quality-of-service report, by quality zone (A = large towns, B = medium, C = rural). An island with several zones has no single published indicator; 2025 includes exceptional events.

SAIFI: interruptions per customer per year

20212022202320242025
Zone A1.32.44.42.11.4
Zone B9.89.15.35.57.3
Zone C23.112.514.39.312.5

SAIDI: time without supply per customer per year (h:mm)

20212022202320242025
Zone A0:060:141:320:090:15
Zone B0:561:410:510:271:13
Zone C3:462:022:060:571:16

Number of customer interruptions (all causes)

20212022202320242025
Customer interruptions862,430516,717567,714379,613495,084

Reporting period: 2025 · years 2021–2025 [source]

Regulated retail tariff

Regulated retail electricity tariff

Single-rate tariff
0.1683€/kWh
Two-rate: off-valley / valley
0.2005 / 0.1082€/kWh
Three-rate: peak / full / valley
0.2584 / 0.1681 / 0.1082€/kWh

Contracted power (€/day)

3.45 kVA0.1929
4.6 kVA0.2520
5.75 kVA0.3083
6.9 kVA0.3665
10.35 kVA0.5394
13.8 kVA0.7122
17.25 kVA0.8832
20.7 kVA1.0636

ERSE prices for normal low-voltage customers (>2.3 and ≤20.7 kVA), before VAT, the same on all nine islands. Not a spot, wholesale or day-ahead price: the Azores have no electricity market.

Reporting period: 2026 [source]

Sources and updates

Every figure on this page comes from one of the documents below. The worker checks them daily (plans, reports) and weekly (tariffs); if a document changes or does not respond, the values here stay the last validated ones.

Checked on 19 Sep 2026: the EDA website exposes no public endpoint (JSON, CSV, XLSX or API) with generation or consumption; its pages are rendered in the browser, without data. That is why there is no 15-minute cycle: there is nothing to read.

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