The dam serves an associated hydroelectric power plant with a 1,440 megawatts (1,930,000 hp) installed capacity.

[1] Owned and maintained by Eletrobrás Furnas, the dam was their fourth power plant constructed.

The total structural volume of materials for the dam is 14,400,000 cubic metres (510,000,000 cu ft).

In total, the spillway has a 21,400 cubic metres per second (760,000 cu ft/s) discharge capacity.

The reservoir created by the dam has a surface area of 438 square kilometres (169 sq mi) and capacity of 6,150 million cubic metres (217×10^9 cu ft) with 5,260 million cubic metres (186×10^9 cu ft) serving as live (active or "useful") storage.