With this further advance in the works of the Marlim Azul thermoelectric plant, the municipality of Macaé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, has consolidated itself as the “Energy City”

Last Tuesday (21/09), in an interview given to journalists, the Director of New Energies at Shell Brasil, Guilherme Perdigão said that the Marlim Azul thermoelectric plant has 70% of the total work completed and should start operating in January 2023, as planned. The executive pointed out that the first turbine has already arrived in Macaé, where the thermoelectric plant is being built. Also read this news: Thermoelectric GNA I, located in Porto do Açu, will start operating today after authorization from Aneel

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The generation of jobs in the works of the UTE Marlim Azul, in Macaé

Guilherme Perdigão said that there are currently more than 1.200 people working on the project as a whole. The project for the Marlim Azul thermoelectric plant, in the city of Macaé, in Rio de Janeiro, also includes the construction of a 22-kilometer gas pipeline, in addition to the line that connects it to the system.

According to Perdigão, the Covid-19 pandemic was a major challenge during this period of works, but that the drop in the number of cases due to vaccination brings optimism for the coming months. The National Electric Energy Agency has been informed of the challenges of the construction stages during the pandemic. The Marlim Azul thermoelectric plant should be the destination of part of the BRL 3 billion that Shell intends to invest in the country until 2025.

In August, the thermoelectric plant began a new construction phase with the arrival of new equipment

The construction site of the Marlim Azul Thermoelectric Power Plant, in the city of Macaé, registered the delivery of the generator that will compose the UTE's production system, one of the most modern and efficient in the world. The 500-ton equipment has the capacity to produce 615 MW (megawatt) per hour of energy, enough to supply the direct consumption of 1,5 million people.

Mayor Welberth Rezende said that the Marlim Azul Thermoelectric Power Plant project consolidates the city of Macaé as a reference in the state of Rio de Janeiro and in the country, as a center for transforming natural gas into energy, thus fostering the expanding market , driving our development. This new phase also heats up our economy and promotes a positive effect: the generation of job opportunities for our population, says Welberth.

According to Arke Energia, the Marlim Azul Thermoelectric Power Plant, in Macaé, is expected to be ready by the end of 2022, thus guaranteeing the production and supply of electricity from January 2023. The UTE will have the capacity to produce 565,5 MW of energy, and will be the first Thermoelectric Plant to use gas produced in the pre-salt layer, supplied by Shell.

The new equipment that arrived at the construction site of the thermal power plant

The equipment that will go to the thermoelectric power plant weighs around 500 tons, which arrived in the city of Macaé aboard a 116-meter-long truck that needed a traffic arrangement on RJ-168, has the capacity to produce 615 megawatts per hour (MW/h) of energy, enough to meet the direct consumption of 1,5 million people.

To ensure the safe transport of the equipment, the Traffic Coordination team of the Urban Mobility Secretariat of Macaé began to work with vehicles and signs, and the release of vehicle passage, from the early hours of Monday.

According to the city of Macaé, in some periods, the passage of vehicles from the RJ-168 was released to ease the traffic coming from the BR-101, towards Macaé, and also the traffic to the mountainous region, which was paralyzed in the part in the morning, with the buses coming from Serra detoured by the Trevo dos 40, near Cabiúnas. Another important piece in the construction of the Marlim Azul Thermoelectric Power Plant is a turbine, manufactured in Japan by Mitsubishi, and which is also due to arrive in Macaé this month, which will guarantee the plant the capacity to produce energy for 24 hours, remembering that the forecast is that the UTE will start operating as of the 1st quarter of next year.