The Brazilian electric system presents special characteristics which differs from those in other countries. A huge territory which contains several hydrographical basins with frequently complementary behaviors that demand great energy exchanges around all the geographical areas of the country. This has required the construction of a massive transmission network that is hardly interlinked. For this reason it has been necessary to construct specific models to generate the electric and energy operation for all the system`s components dispersed throughout the country. The operation planning of electrical systems problem is separated into several stages, in accord with the study outline, over a long term until the actual operational programming. At each stage the representational of hydraulic plant inflows and the peculiarities of the electric system are different. In the case of long-term planning it is important to analyze the impact of the long lasting droughts, their probability of occurrence and the multi-year reservoir regulation capacity for the Brazilian system. In this phase, hydroelectric plants are represented in a simplified manner and there are a detailed inflows representation. As the study horizon diminishes, the uncertainty about the future inflows also decreases, therefore increasing the need for a more detailed representation of the hydraulic and thermal plants, small hydraulic plants, interchanges and transmission network. This work concentrates on the long-term models which traditionally employ a representation using equivalen. We create here the possibility of a hybrid representation, where part of the hydraulic plants will be represented by equivalent reservoirs and part will be individually represented by total hydraulic coupling throughout all the systems components.