Porto Góes Hydroelectric Power Station
The construction of the Porto Góes Power Station was started by a company called Brasital S.A., with the scope of supplying electric energy to its own production center. Still under construction, in 1924, this concession was transferred to the Companhia Ituana, and after that it was bought by Light in 1927. Inaugurated during 1928 with the remaining factories of the Brasital S.A. group of companies, at the right bank of the Tietê River, it forms a complex that dominates the landscape of the City of Salto adjacent to the river rapids, with the predominating characteristics of the industrial
architecture of the first decades of the current century. The opening of the unloading channel results in an island - natural plants reserve - that consists, with the Paula Souza square, a point of reference for an urban scenario. It is has two generator units, equipped with vertical axle Francis turbines, with an installed production capacity of 11 MW, turbinate flow rate of 56 cubic meters/s and nominal difference of levels of 25 meters. It was the first EMAE's power station to become automated