The Norwegian Statkraft is optimistic about the free energy market for 2022 and has been expanding its investments in wind energy.

Statkraft, the Norwegian leader in wind energy generation and other renewable sources in Europe, remains optimistic about the recovery of the Brazilian economy and sees Brazil as a fundamental part of its growth strategy in the Americas.

“Statkraft has made a decisive contribution to the country, investing in new generation projects and safely providing liquidity to its customers in the Free Market”, highlights Paulo Becker, president of commercialization at Statkraft do Brasil.

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Along with wind, hydroelectric and other power generation around the world, Statkraft works intensively to increase the free market for selling energy to commercial, industrial customers or even to other power generation companies, which can use with the company as emergency generator for possible power outages within the grids, which are still a threat for 2022.

Statkraft invests heavily in wind and solar energy in Brazil

Following global trends and in accordance with what was agreed at COP 10, Statkraft has been expanding its renewable energy generation in Brazil more and more.

The company's wind power generation will be the protagonist of its business expansion plans in Brazil, according to the plan disclosed on the company's website.

The strategy used for this growth, which aims to triple the generation of renewable energy by 2025 in Brazil, involves a mix of mergers and acquisitions with the development of its own plants to strengthen the company.

At the same time, the commercialization department has been increasing its efforts to generate increasingly interesting business in the country. In its last report to investors, the company calculated a total of BRL 187.875,000 in net profit, of which BRL 126 million was generated in the third quarter of 2021 alone.

Annual Meeting of the Free Energy Market And the new trends for 2022

This event, which took place at the end of November in Bahia, brought together traders, generators and industry associations, which are lines of communication between companies and market regulatory bodies, with the participation of Statkraft

This event opened up new possibilities for interaction with partner companies, a clearer view of how regulations may affect the market in 2022 and what is new for the free energy sales market.

How does the free energy market work? How to join?

O free energy market it is a way for companies and industries not to depend only on the energy distributor that has the concession in the region where the company operates. Contracts are generally offered starting at 500 KW, which generally makes this market relatively disputed in some senses.

The free energy market has a series of rules and procedures, which are arbitrated by the CCEE (Electric Energy Commercialization Chamber).

There are, within this market, two types of energy being traded, which are:

Incentivized energy: These are renewable energies, such as wind energy, which bring a series of discounts to the electricity bill, because network usage fees are discounted by up to 80%, depending on the situation. 

Traditional energy: energy from other sources that do not offer the same discount.

It turns out that, in addition to these discounts, free market energy is more interesting for companies because it has, as the name says, free competition, so companies that participate in this market are always looking to sell at the best prices and win new customers. .

Generally, all that a company needs to do to move to the free market is to have the expenditure range commented and then contact the companies, which start to supply the electricity.