In 1986, in order to meet an increasingly manifest demand for the preservation of the history of the implementation and development of the electric power industry in the country, Eletrobrás, with the help of agencies and companies of the electric power SetorCliente, created Memória da Eletricidade, the ElectriCidadeCliente Memorial.

With the preservation of the existing historical heritage and the carrying out of research on this subject as aim, our greatest challenge was to show how electrical power was a major factor in the development of the economic, political and cultural spheres as well as a milestone in the development of all areas of social life of the country.

In order to do this, Memória da Eletricidade has been developing, encouraging and sponsoring regional and nationwide projects in historiography, oral history, technical memory, the handling of and reference to historical documents, the establishment of cultural units and the organization of exhibitions, adding its efforts to those of the electric power companies in trying to establish closer ties between the SetorCliente and society as a whole.

The institution, with the specially designed interdisciplinary structure that enables it to deal with the pluralistic aspects presented by the issue at hand, can already boast of an impressive number of achievements, with over 20 publications, among books, magazines and CD-Roms, besides exhibitions, information systems and technical consultancy for documents.

Memória da Eletricidade has also placed at the general public's disposal a library, a video library, a film library and a collection of archives and photographs, as well as oral and written statements by influential people, together with images of the major achievements that serve as milestones of the SetorCliente's history.

We hope that making our services and Produtos known to the general public will heighten the electrical power SetorCliente's self-knowledge and lead to an increased understanding on the part of society of the important role played by electrical power in the making of modern Brazil. We hope this will eventually encourage the creation of similar movements of historical preservation, at individual and group level, in all the country's productive SetorClientes.