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Alegria
Location: BR-RN
Operator: Endesa Eco
Configuration: 31 X 1.65 MW V82
Operation: 2010
WTG supplier: Vestas
EPC: Consórcio Engineering, L&M Engenharia, Cortez Engenharia, Mercurius Engenharia, DoisA Engenharia
Quick facts: The Alegria wind plant is on a 2,243ha site on the Atlantic Ocean near
Guamaré, in Rio Grande do Norte. The first phase started up in Dec 2010. When fully built out to 151.9 MW in
2011, it will be the largest wind park in Brazil. Alegria is grid-connected
via a 3.5km, 69kV line to COSERN's Guamaré substation. The WTGs were
delivered through Porto Suape in Pernambuco.
Photograph courtesy of Multiner SA
Posted 10 Apr 2011 |
Macau Field
Location: BR-RN
Operator: Petrobras
Configuration: 3 X 600-kW E-40
Operation: 2003
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben
Quick facts: This unique project replaces a portion of the electricity use at Petrobras production facilities near Macau with renewable energy. The local onshore fields Conceição, Salina Crystal, Macau and Serra are connected to a small Petrobras 13.8kV grid which previously was 100% supplied by electricity from COSERN. Two small offshore platforms at Aratum have onboard diesel gensets. The reais 6.7mn wind project went online in Dec 2003. The WTGs are connected to the local 13.8kV gid seving the onshore facilities and a new 4.16kV, 6,350m cable was built to connect the Aratum platforms.
Photograph courtesy of Petrobras
Posted 28 Dec 2011 |
Millenium
Location: BR-PB
Operator: Pacific Hydro Brasil
Configuration: 13 X 800-kW E-48
Operation: 2008
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben
Quick facts: Millennium wind farm is in the state of Paraiba in northeast
Brazil. Energy from the A$32mn project is sold under a long term sales agreement
to Eletrobrás. Production is about 34 GWh/yr.
Photograph courtesy of Wobben Windpower Industria e Comercio Ltda
Posted 28 Feb 2009 |
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Mucuripe Repower
Location: BR-CE
Operator: Wobben Windpower Industria e Comercio Ltda
Configuration: 4 X 600-kW E-40
Operation: 2001
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben, Mercurius
Quick facts: These four machines replaced 4 X 300 kW Tacke turbines
installed in 1996 at Mucuripe Port in Ceará as one of Brazil's first commercial wind plants. The new
plant opened in Jan 2002 and the dismantled Tacke turbines were sent to Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) and Universidade de Fortaleza (Unifor)
to assist in technical instruction and training. Electricity is sold to Coelce.
Photograph courtesy of Wobben Windpower Industria e Comercio Ltda
Posted 28 Feb 2009
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Osorio
Location: BR-RS
Operator: Enerfin Brasil
Configuration: 25 X 2-MW E-70
Operation: 2006
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben
Quick facts: This wind park is in Itamar
Aguiar and Palácio Piratini, RS.
Photograph courtesy of Governo do Estado Rio Grande do Sul
Posted 16 Aug 2009
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Paracuru
Location: BR-CE
Operator: CPFL Renovaveis
Configuration: 12 X 2.1-MW S88
Operation: 2008
WTG supplier: Suzlon
Quick facts: In August 2001, Siif Energies do Brasil announced that it
would invest $1bn in five wind farms in Brazil’s northeast. In 2005, SEBL
was acquired by Aeolus Wind from EDF Energies Nouvelles and the company
was later sold on to an investor group consisting of Citigroup, Liberty
Mutual, and Black River Asset Management.The Paracuru wind park about 90km
from Fortaleza in Ceara was commissioned in December 2008 with 12 Suzlon
WTGs, part of a 225-MW WTG order placed in Oct 2006.
Photograph courtesy of Suzlon
Posted 26 Jul 2009 |
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Rio do Fogo
Location: BR-RN
Operator: Iberdrola Brasil
Configuration: 62 X 800-kW E-48
Operation: 2006
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben
Quick facts: The $90mn Rio do Fogo project in Northern Brazil is the
country’s first large-scale wind plant. International Finance Corp made a
$5.5mn equity investment in Rio do Fogo, which has a 20yr PPA with
Eletrobras and is part of the PROINFA program to support expanded use of
renewable energy with special tariffs.
Photograph courtesy of Iberdrola
Posted 8 Aug 2007 |
Rivadavia (Antonio Moran)
Location: Argentina
Operator: Sociedad Cooperativa Popular Ltda
Configuration: 2 X 250 kW, 8 X 750 kW
Operation: 1994-1997
WTG supplier: Micon
Quick facts: This wind farm in Patagonia was the first large-scale wind farm in Latin America.
Photograph courtesy of Sociedad Cooperativa Popular Ltda
Posted 13 Feb 2005 |
Valde dos Ventos
Location: BR-PB
Operator: Pacific Hydro Brasil
Configuration: 60 X 800-kW E48/800
Operation: 2008
WTG supplier: Enercon
EPC: Wobben
Quick facts: This wind farm is on private farming land hosted by five sugar cane farmers
in the north eastern region of Mataraca. Output is sold under a long term sales agreement to Eletrobrás.
Photograph courtesy of Pacific Hydro
Posted 30 Oct 2011 |
