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City Hall Requests Authorization to Reach Consensus with the Paraense Energy Company (Copel), on the Investment of the Caximba Solar and Biomass Plant S/A.
The bill for the solar and biomass plant has already been approved; both the city hall and Copel will establish a specifically intentional partnership, of closed capital and endowed with private legal personality, for the implementation and management of UFB Caximba, where the city’s landfill was already located, operational until 2010.
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Thus, there will be two different units. Copel is responsible for the biomass plant project, which will generate energy from the plant waste produced in the city.
And the municipality, with the support of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), will oversee the planning of the photovoltaic solar plant, which will take the shape of a pyramid and will be built on the compacted garbage mound of the old landfill. The design is said to be the idea of the mayor himself in collaboration with architect Guilherme Klock.
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