Brazil licenses 90 MW from the Apr 29 energy auction

Author: Matt Berlin. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Brazil's power sector watchdog Aneel announced on Monday the licensing of 6 winning projects, totalling 90.02 MW of power from the A-5 energy auction held on April 29.

Aneel's licences confirm the tax regularity and the legal, technical, economic and financial qualifications of the projects.

With 6 different owners, the schemes use hydropower, biomass and natural gas as sources and are scheduled to start operation on January 1, 2021. More details are available in the table below.

Project name	Type	Capacity	Owner
Barra do Leao	Small hydropower plant	3.57 MW	Tres Leoes Participacoes SA
São Joao II		6.99 MW	Hidreletrica Sao Joao II SPE Ltda
São Luiz		10.5 MW	Sao Luiz Energia SA
Clairto Zonta		14.92 MW	Argentum Energia SPE Ltda
Vale do Parana	Biomass from sugarcane bagasse	48.5 MW	Vale do Parana SA Alcool e Acucar
Oeste de Canoas 1	Natural gas	5.54 MW	Oeste de Canoas Petroleo e Gas Ltda

In all, 528.9 MW of power was secured in the auction, negotiated at an average price of BRL 198.59 per MWh (USD 59.18/EUR 53.42). As of now, Aneel has licensed 18 of the 29 winning projects.

(BRL 1 = USD 0.298/EUR 0.269)

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