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News
(Source:
Valor Econômico Newspaper - December 15th 2009)
by Josette
Goulart, of Sao Paulo
Wind
auction
has a
21%
discount
Energy: Price was R$ 148 per MW and investments are
estimated between R$ 7 billion and R$ 9 billion
Brazil will receive during the next three years
investments between R$ 7 billion and R$ 9 billion in
wind farms with a generation capacity of 1.8
megawatts.
This was the volume negociated in yesterday's first
public auction of wind power promoted by the federal
government.
But despite significant investments, the price was
surprising.
With the average US$ 148 per MW, a discount of 21%
compared to the ceiling price, the government
indicates that there is no more need to conduct an
auction only for wind power.
"This is a competitive source," said the executive
secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME),
Márcio Zimmermann.
The price was close to the one for energy of thermal
power projects.
According to the Director-General of ANEEL, Nelson
Hubner, this also shows that these projects will
have to become more competitive over the coming
years, as there is a tendency for all energy sources
to compete in the same auction
in the future.
According to Jose Carlos de Faria Miranda, the
Energy Research Company, the price was competitive
because the productivity factor in the generation of
the winning projects is very high, on average, 40% -
a percentage similar to that proposed in the
hydroelectric power plant from
Belo Monte and quite high in relation to wind
projects in general.
With this level of productivity, the energy ensured
in the contest was equivalent to 753 MW.
By this criterion, the biggest winners were the
Renova Energy, a company formed by investors in
financial markets, which sold 127 MW, and CPFL
Energia, with 73 MW.
The president of the Electric Energy
Commercialization Chamber (CCEE), Antônio Carlos
Fraga Machado, said that 130 entrepreneurs attended
and sregistered 217 projects with more than 6
thousand MW of capacity.
The 31 entrepreneurs who won argued for seven and a
half hours, guaranteeing
R$ 19.6 billion
as income to be received in 20 years.
The government understood that the auction was a
success and the sign that the equipment industry
expected to invest in the country.
One of the incentives provided to the auction was
the exemption of IPI (industrialized product tax),
which according to Zimmermann gives a positive
impact of 7.5%.
EPE believes that the total investment will reach
US$ 9.4 billion, but some government officials
believe that, through competition, the investment
per MW planned by investors should be less than R$ 5
million, settling around R$
4 million.
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