Brazil's auction of wind, hydroelectric and biomass energy will lead to 9.7 billion Brazilian reals ($5.5 billion) of investments in renewable energy, the state-controlled energy research company said Friday.
Brazil
's
auction of wind, hydroelectric and biomass energy will lead to 9.7 billion
Brazilian reals ($5.5 billion) of investments in renewable energy, the
state-controlled energy research company said Friday.
The auction of alternative energy, negotiated between electricity generators
and distributors, and the auction of reserve energy, negotiated between generators
and
Brazil
's
electricity clearinghouse CCEE, led to the contracting of 2,892 megawatts of
new installed capacity, energy research company EPE said in a statement. The
auction ended after markets closed Thursday.
Fifty wind farms agreed to sell electricity in the alternative energy auction. In
the reserve auction, another 20 wind projects were contracted to supply energy
to CCEE, which in turn will sell the energy to consumers as needed.
The average price of wind power at both auctions was BRL130.86 per
megawatt/hour. That's 11.8% less than the price generators agreed to sell for
during last year's auction of wind energy.
Industry players say cheap financing, localized production and economies of
scale mean prices will likely fall further as
Brazil
seeks
more renewable resources to supplant its dependence on hydroelectric power.
In addition to wind-generated power, which will provide 2,048MW of the total
capacity, 12 sugarcane bagasse-burning plants and seven small hydroelectric
dams were contracted at the auction of reserve and alternative energy.
The biomass plants sold energy for an average of 144.20, while the small
hydropower dams--those with capacity below 30MW each--sold energy for
BRL141.93.
The auction represents a "breaking of paradigms in the Brazilian electric
sector" because "wind power was among the cheapest energy
negotiated," EPE President Mauricio Tolmasquim said in the statement.
The total amount of wind power contracted is an increase from the 1,805 MW
hired in a December auction. Future auctions will likely add 2,000-2,500 MW of
capacity a year, accounting for one-third of the roughly 6,000 MW Brazil will
need to add in capacity annually over the next decade, according to Pedro
Perrelli, president of industry group ABEEolica in
Sao
Paulo
.
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