General Electric Is Eyeing the Brazilian Offshore Wind Energy Market, and Investments May Come This Year

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Published on 01/06/2021 at 12:40

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General Electric (GE) Plans to Invest in Sectors Such as Natural Gas, Offshore Wind Energy, Hydroelectric Power, and Others. The Goal Is to Transform Brazil into a Powerful Energy Distributor

General Electric (GE) is excited about new investments in Brazil. The company has various plans, such as the natural gas market, investments in thermal plants, hydroelectric power, wind turbines, and also investments in the offshore wind energy sector.

Investments by General Electric – GE in Offshore Wind Energy

According to Maurício Vieira, Sales Director of Wind at GE Renewable Energy, General Electric is keeping an eye on the offshore wind energy sector. He claims that the offshore wind sector is a strategy of GE and that the company is a leader in this segment.

GE has a 13 MW platform with a rotor of about 220 meters. Not to mention some contracts that have been announced for the United States and European countries. In Brazil, the company is ready to offer offshore wind energy technology, but so far, the company has not been requested.

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Words from the Commercial Leader of the Grid Solutions Division

According to Gilton Peixoto, Commercial Leader of the Grid Solutions Division, in addition to generating electricity through offshore wind energy, it will be necessary to transmit it to the coast. Furthermore, he emphasized that GE also has this type of technology.

Generally, this involves a transmission made in HVDC (high voltage direct current) through VSC (Voltage Source Converter) technology. This year, another project was granted by General Electric in the United Kingdom.

The offshore wind energy project was named Sofia, which connected 1,320 MW off the coast of Northern England. The project is located 220 km from the coast and is also connected to GE’s HVDC-VSC technology. According to Peixoto, the company is eager to bring these investments to Brazil.

GE Investments in Brazil

Starting with the Natural Gas market, the executive director of General Electric Gas Power Latin America, Daniel Meniuk, states that the company is already seeing more activity in the sector and also believes that in the next two years, new thermal plants will be built in inland Brazil.

Meanwhile, the president of Hydro at GE Renewable Energy, Eduardo Cardoso, states that the company is also seeing great potential in Brazil for medium-sized Hydroelectric Plants. He emphasizes that they do not have a large environmental impact and are closer to the load center.

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