Energy and utilities companies in Brazil

Brazil's Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) lists 23,497 companies in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (ISIC section D), all of them active, which is 0.2% of all Brazilian records in the LatSouth build (data as of 2026-10-10). By state, São Paulo leads with 3,880 (17% of the section), followed by Minas Gerais (2,561) and Ceará (1,780). The section has a single division, 35 electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, with 23,497 records.

Generation, transmission and distribution companies, plus thousands of special-purpose vehicles for solar, wind and biomass plants. In Brazil the distributed-generation boom created a wave of small generation SPVs after 2019; in Chile and Colombia the renewable pipeline shows up the same way. Treat each SPV as an asset, not an account, unless you sell to project developers. In Brazil, 100% of these rows carry an ISIC class; size is known for 7%; 33.6% have a corporate domain or HTTP-verified website; 1,424 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. Brazilian rows are active establishments; 13,102 of them are head offices in the clean B2B universe (private, not sole-owner, name unmasked).