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Terceira

Terceira: 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
184,609MWh
24.0 % of the archipelago's generation
Renewable share
37.8%
geothermal, hydro, wind, solar, waste, biogas
Thermal (fuel oil, diesel): 114768 MW Geothermal: 23742 MW Hydro: 1629 MW Wind: 30748 MW Waste (CVE): 13651 MW 185 GWh
By sourceMWhshare
Thermal (fuel oil, diesel) 114,768 62.2 %
Geothermal 23,742 12.9 %
Hydro 1,629 0.9 %
Wind 30,748 16.7 %
Solar PV 71 0.0 %
Waste (CVE) 13,651 7.4 %

Reporting period: 2020 [source]

Annual consumption and peak

Energy delivered to the grid · 2023
196.6GWh
Annual peak load · 2023
33.2MW
reached on 02/08/2023
20192020202120222023
Energy delivered to the grid187.6184.6193.1195.6196.6
Annual peak load32.732.232.633.533.2

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)58.1
Geothermal4.7
Hydro1.4
Wind12.6
Waste (CVE)2.6
Total79.4

Reporting period: 2020-12 [source]

Planned for 2024-12: investment plan, NOT achieved

Thermal (fuel oil, diesel)68.5
Geothermal4.7
Hydro1.4
Wind12.6
Solar PV2.0
Waste (CVE)2.6
Total91.8

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 A3.96.83.12.83.5
Zone B17.59.110.15.86.7
Zone C21.317.819.420.619.1

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

20212022202320242025
Zone A1:022:141:270:251:01
Zone B2:242:172:421:075:24
Zone C2:544:525:181:474:02

Number of customer interruptions (all causes)

20212022202320242025
Customer interruptions360,995307,167314,494313,729301,167

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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