Wind Farms Dominating Brazil Power Auction Set for Record Year
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Developers of wind farms in Brazil won all the contracts in an auction for new power capacity as turbine makers seek to supply South America’s biggest renewable-energy market.
Companies including Eletrosul and CEEE agreed to build 39 wind farms with a total capacity of 867.6 megawatts, the national energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica, also known as EPE, said today on its website. The developers will sell the projects’ energy to distributors at an average price of 124.43 reais ($54.87) a megawatt-hour.