EDP ​​receives environmental license for LTs and substation in Maranhão. There will be 127 km of lines that will run through six municipalities in the state, generating around 500 direct jobs.

EDP, a company that operates in all segments of the Brazilian electricity sector, received the Installation License (LI) from the State Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources of Maranhão (SEMA) for the construction of 127 kilometers of transmission lines that will reinforce the state's electrical system. The concession allows for the immediate start of construction.

The implementation of the transmission project called Lot 7, which, in addition to two LTs, will also be responsible for a new energy substation in the capital São Luís, was awarded in Transmission Auction No. 5/2016 by ANEEL. In this case, the lines will be responsible for bringing electricity to the metropolitan region of São Luís.

The project's main objective is to increase the supply of electricity in the north of Maranhão, passing through the municipalities of São Luís, Bacabeira, Santa Rita, Anajatuba, Itapecuru Mirim and Miranda do Norte. With an investment of approximately R$ 400 million, the construction of the lot should create approximately 500 direct jobs in the region.

Luiz Otávio Henriques, Vice President of Generation and Transmission at EDP in Brazil, said that the company expects to conclude the work in advance, “which has already become a trademark in the market” reinforcing the infrastructure of the Maranhão electrical grid and boosting the economy and job creation in the state.

At the beginning of the year, EDP received the Installation License from SEMA for the construction of 203 kilometers of transmission lines – called lot 11, in the municipalities of Miranda do Norte, Matão do Norte, Cantanhede, Pirapemas, Vargem Grande, Chapadinha and Coelho Grandchild. The project also included the expansion of the Miranda do Norte II and Coelho Neto substations, in addition to the construction of the Chapadinha II substation. The work, which had a total investment of BRL 182 million, has generated approximately 200 direct jobs and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020.

In all, the Company has committed to investing approximately R$3,5 billion by 2022 in new energy transmission projects, which will add approximately 1.4 kilometers of networks to the national electrical system, in the states of Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais , São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Maranhão

This week, the company obtained the Preliminary License (LP) for Lot 18, with 375 kilometers of transmission lines between São Paulo and Minas Gerais, expanding the capacity to receive energy from the entire Southeast region. The investment estimated by EDP for the construction of this venture is R$ 1,3 billion.

In May of this year, the company acquired in the secondary market Litoral Sul Transmissora de Energia Ltda, holder of the concession rights of Lot Q, purchased in the first stage of Auction 13/2015, in April 2016. was R$ 407 million, in a project composed of two substations and 142 Km of LTs, connecting the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.

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