Every year, more and more wind and solar power plants are being built in Brazil, mostly in the country’s Northeast, where climatic conditions are ideal. Most energy consumers, however, are located in the Southeast.
State of play. An energy distribution auction held on Friday, the largest of its kind to date, attracted international and national players interested in investing BRL 15.3 billion (USD 3.2 billion) to solve this bottleneck, just BRL 400 million less than the maximum bid estimated by the regulatory agency Aneel.
Additional load. The auction also included the construction of substations with a transformation capacity of 400 megavolts-amperes (MVA) because, according to the Brazilian association of electricity distribution Abradee, the growth of wind and solar generation has caused a reversal in the flow of electricity in...
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