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With the capacity to meet the equivalent of 15% of NE demand, the thermoelectric plant is expected to enter into commercial operation in January 2020
Last Wednesday (20), CELSE obtained two authorizations that inaugurated the final stage of implementation of the largest and most efficient natural gas thermoelectric plant in Latin America: the Porto Sergipe I UTE. See also that Petrobras leases Fafens from Bahia and Sergipe to the Unigel Group for R$ 177 million
The signatures that were obtained by the Company included the permission for the Pre-Operation of the first private LNG terminal in Brazil, allowing regasification and the movement of gas to UTE Porto de Sergipe I, issued by the ANP; and release of the four generating units to start Test Operation, with a total of 1,5GW of power generation capacity, issued by ANEEL.
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UTE Porto Sergipe I should start commercial operation in January 2020 and its objective is to convert liquefied natural gas into electricity. The thermoelectric plant will have a capacity equivalent to 15% of the energy demand in the Northeast, adding great energy availability to the entire National Interconnected System.
With an investment of around R$ 5 billion in state-of-the-art technology, the project, located in the Porto de Sergipe I Thermoelectric Complex, in Barra dos Coqueiros, a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of Aracaju (SE), will boost the socioeconomic development of the region and generate job expectation.
About a company
A SESSION (Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe SA), a company created by the Brazilian company EBRASIL-Eletricidade do Brasil and Golar Power, was founded in 2015 for the generation and sale of electricity from gas thermoelectric power generating units. The company was victorious in the A-5 New Energy Auction in April 2015, establishing 26 contracts to enter into commercial operation in January 2020.
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