Northeast celebrates investments of BRL 50 billion in offshore wind energy: Servtec and Macquaire will deploy five wind farms offshore Brazil, the largest of which is in Ceará

Many jobs in the Northeast! In addition to the billionaire investment in offshore wind farms, Ceará is in the sights of global giants, and a second turbine factory will soon be announced by Governor Camilo Santana – the first, announced earlier this week, was that of the Chinese Ming Yang

Nordeste starts the month of February with excellent news written by Egídio Serpa, in the newspaper Diário do Nordeste! The Brazilian energy company Servtec is celebrating a multibillion-dollar partnership with the Australian group Macquaire, for the construction of five wind farm projects offshore Brazil, the largest of which is in Ceará. All this investment will bring development and many jobs to the region.

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According to the newspaper, the investment of R$ 50 billion foresees the construction of a Maritime Wind Power Plant with a capacity of 3,48 GW in Águas de Acaraú, municipality on the West Coast of Ceará.

The companies delivered to Ibama, last Tuesday, the studies of their projects, including those related to the elaboration of the EIA/Rima. The analysis of all the studies will take from three to five years, according to Lauro Fiúza Neto, partner and director of Servtec Energia, who forwarded this information to the Diário do Nordeste column.
 
According to the newspaper, the construction of the venture, even after issuing the environmental licenses, will only begin when the energy to be generated has one or more firm buyers.

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Northeast: project in the sea of ​​Ceará plans to build more than 200 wind towers, each with a 15 MW generator

The project planned for the sea of ​​Acaraú foresees the installation of more than 200 wind towers, each with a 15 MW generator. And it doesn't stop there, according to Lauro Fiúza Neto, in addition to the Ceará project, four other wind farms will be implemented in Brazil, one in the Southeast region and three in the South.

Lauro Neto – whose father, Lauro Fiúza Júnior, is the majority shareholder of Servtec and one of the founders of the Associação Brasileira de Energia Eólica (Abeeólica, of which he was its first president and whose Board of Directors he has already chaired) – revealed that the Australian Macquaire Group, was sensitive to the current moment in Brazil and approached Servtec , thus giving birth to the partnership that began to be built a year ago and which was consolidated last week with the publication of President Bolsonaro's decree, regulating the construction and operation of offshore wind projects.

For Lauro Neto, the presidential decree “puts some order” in the area of ​​offshore wind, establishing actions for entrepreneurs and for the set of Government agencies. 

Porto do Pecém, in Ceará, receives a visit from the British giant BP

Representatives of the multinational BP, led by its Senior Vice President for Energy & Gas, the Italian Federica Berra, visited the Pecém Complex, including the ZPE-Ceará. The executives met with the secretary of Economic Development, Maia Júnior, and with directors of CIPP S/A, the company that manages Complexo do Pecém and ZPE-Ceará.

For those who don't remember, BP celebrated, 15 days ago, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Ceará for the installation of a natural gas Hub that foresees the exclusive use of a pier in the Industrial and Port Complex of Pecém.  

According to Diário do Nordeste, Maia Júnior reiterated at the meeting that the Government of Ceará will fully comply with the commitments assumed in the Memorandum of Understanding entered into with BP. 

After meeting with BP executives, secretary Maia Júnior told the column that the first days of this month of February, "have been full of good news", citing as an important event the announcement of Servtec Energia, which, in partnership with the Australian giant Macquaire, delivered an offshore energy generation project with a capacity of 3,48 GW in the sea of ​​Acaraú, on the west coast of Ceará, for analysis by Ibama.

With the enthusiasm that characterizes him, the secretary also announced that, in the next few days, Governor Camilo Santana will announce a second wind generator factory – the first, announced earlier this week, was the Chinese Ming Yang.