{"id":322,"date":"2026-04-29T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemig.com.br\/en\/news\/how-does-electricity-get-to-your-home\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:29:14","slug":"how-does-electricity-get-to-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemig.com.br\/en\/news\/how-does-electricity-get-to-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How does electricity get to your home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that\u00a0<strong>electricity<\/strong>\u00a0goes a long way to get to your home? It is transported through transmission lines and reaches its destination through distribution networks. These networks are made up of poles, cables and transformers which, in turn, bring electricity to homes, industries, hospitals, schools, among other places. Our\u00a0<strong>distribution network<\/strong>\u00a0is 443,525 kilometers long, which makes it the largest in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Power plants that supply electricity to Belo Horizonte (BH)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There is more than one plant to serve the capital of Minas Gerais. Our system is interconnected, as well as that of the South, Southeast and Center-West Regions, which means that all of Cemig\u2019s plants produce energy, and this energy is distributed to all the locations served by the Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cemig also buys 16% of all electricity generated by \u201cItaipu\u201d power plant. When the Company has surplus energy, it can sell it to other concessionaires of the&nbsp;<strong>Southeast-South Interconnected System.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that\u00a0electricity\u00a0goes a long way to get to your home? It is transported through transmission lines and reaches its destination through distribution networks. These networks are made up of poles, cables and transformers which, in turn, bring electricity to homes, industries, hospitals, schools, among other places. Our\u00a0distribution network\u00a0is 443,525 kilometers long, which makes it the largest in Brazil. Power plants that supply electricity to Belo Horizonte (BH) There is more than one plant to serve the capital of Minas Gerais. Our system is interconnected, as well as that of the South, Southeast and Center-West Regions, which means that all of Cemig\u2019s plants produce energy, and this energy is distributed to all the locations served by the Company. Cemig also buys 16% of all electricity generated by \u201cItaipu\u201d power plant. When the Company has surplus energy, it can sell it to other concessionaires of the&nbsp;Southeast-South Interconnected System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How does electricity get to your home? - Cemig en<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cemig.com.br\/en\/news\/how-does-electricity-get-to-your-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How does electricity get to your home? - Cemig en\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Did you know that\u00a0electricity\u00a0goes a long way to get to your home? 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