{"id":5990,"date":"2012-01-06T09:07:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:21","slug":"wind-power-takes-center-stage-at-brazilian-power-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wind-power-takes-center-stage-at-brazilian-power-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Power Takes Center Stage At Brazilian Power Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wind-turbines1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wind-turbines1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wind-turbines1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind turbines<\/figcaption><\/figure>A recent auction held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aneel.gov.br\/?idiomaAtual=1\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian National Electric Energy Agency<\/a> (ANEEL), resulted in 42 new electricity generation projects with a total installed capacity of 1,211.5 megawatts (MW), to meet the projected demand of distribution companies in 2016.  Of this total, 39 projects were wind farms, totalling 976.5 MW, or 81 percent of the total power traded in the auction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The average price per MWh was R$102.18 (approx. US$ 55 per MWh), which included an average discount of 8.77 percent. According to Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Energy Research Company (EPE), the auction fully met the demand of energy distribution companies.<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/archives\/wind-power-energy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">wind energy<\/a> plants will be installed in different regions of the country: in the northeast  (Bahia, Cear\u00c3\u00a1, Maranh\u00c3\u00a3o and Rio Grande do Norte), in the heartland (Goi\u00c3\u00a1s), in the south (Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina) and southeast (S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo). The total projected investment is R$4.3 billion (approx. US$2.3 billion). <\/p>\n<p>Apart from wind, the San Roque hydroelectric power plant (135 MW) was allocated to the state of Santa Catarina at the price per MWh of R$91.20 (approx. US$49.1 per MWh), which was a 25.85 percent discount to the original price, with expected investments of R$652 million (approx. US$351.1 million).<\/p>\n<p>According to EPE, Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wind energy potential is estimated to be 143,000 MW, with the ability to reach 300,000 MW with the use of modern generators. Between 2009 and 2010, the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wind power generation increased by 50.5 percent; and currently accounts for 0.4 percent of the total electricity produced in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy accounts for  87.1 of Brazil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electricity matrix, mainly from hydropower. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pressure in the country for government to bring online wind and solar projects as the hydropower industry eyes the Amazon region for future projects, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/controversy-continues-on-amazon-dam-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">the controversial Belo Monte dam<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent auction held by the Brazilian National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), resulted in 42 new electricity generation projects with a total installed capacity of 1,211.5 megawatts (MW), to meet the projected demand of distribution companies in 2016. Of this total, 39 projects were wind farms, totalling 976.5 MW, or 81 percent of the total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}