Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul gives prelim licences to 536 MW of biomass projects

Chipped wood. Author: Douglas O'Brien. License: Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic.

The Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul, also known as Imasul, gave on Friday preliminary licences to 535.75 MW of wood-based biomass projects.

The portfolio consists of 10 schemes with combined investments of up to BRL 2.76 billion (USD 734m/EUR 679m), located in the cities of Ribas do Rio Pardo, Aparecida do Taboado and Sonora. Their deadline for reaching commercial operation is set for January 1, 2021.

The licences were given to local groups Guarany Energetica, Eldorado, Florestas do Parana Energia and Cia Positiva de Energia. The said projects are expected to take part in the February 5 energy auction. Preliminary licences only attest to the environmental feasibility of the schemes.

More details are available in the table below.

Location	Project names	Combined capacity
Aparecida do Taboado	Tuiuiu	50 MW
Aparecida do Taboado	Sucuri	50 MW
Aparecida do Taboado	Onca Pintada	150 MW
Sonora	Agua Bonita II and III	20 MW
Ribas do Rio Pardo	Guarany I, II and III	165.75 MW
Ribas do Rio Pardo	Nova da Mata I and II	100 MW

Mato Grosso do Sul has a surplus production of about 360,000 ha (889,579 acres) of eucalyptus. Together, the plants will consume 225,000 ha, leaving 135,000 ha for other projects, according to the State Secretary of Environment and Economic Development, Jaime Elias Verruck.

(BRL 1 = USD 0.266/EUR 0.246)

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