BRL 5.5 Billion in New Hydroelectric Plants: Is It the Right Bet for Brazil’s Energy Future?

Written by Carla Teles Published on 22/08/2025 at 22:46

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Um leilão do governo garantiu R$ 5,5 bilhões para novas hidrelétricas no Brasil. Saiba como este investimento vai fortalecer a matriz energética do país.

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Exclusive Auction for Small and Medium Plants Determines the Direction of the Energy Matrix with Long-Term Contracts and Points Out the Major Market Players.

The Brazilian government has just defined an important part of the country’s energy future. An auction focused on small and medium hydroelectric plants resulted in the negotiation of 815 megawatts (MW) of capacity. The operation will unlock R$ 5.5 billion in new investments, according to official data from the Electricity Trading Chamber (CCEE).

Energy Auction Enables 815 MW in Small and Medium Hydroelectric Plants

The first government auction dedicated exclusively to small and medium hydroelectric plants confirmed strong market interest. The event secured the contracting of projects totaling 815 MW in new plants.

The average price of the energy negotiated was R$ 392.84 per megawatt-hour (MWh). This final price represented a discount of 3.16% off the initial value, demonstrating competition among generators.

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20-Year Contracts and Start of Supply

The contracted hydroelectric plant projects will have a long operational life cycle. The contracts were signed for a period of 20 years, ensuring stability for investors and the system. The start of power supply from these new plants is scheduled for January 2030.

The auction included different types of small and medium-sized plants, such as small hydroelectric generating plants (CGHs), mini hydroelectric plants (PCHs), and hydroelectric plants (UHEs) with capacity of up to 50 MW.

Main Buyers in the Hydroelectric Auction

Major market players secured the purchase of the energy. The main buyer was Amazonas Energia, which is in the process of transitioning control to Âmbar, part of the J&F group.

In addition, major distributors such as Neoenergia (Celpe, Coelba, and Cosern), Enel (Eletropaulo and Coelce), Energisa (Paraíba and Tocantins), and Light also actively participated in the purchases, securing energy for their consumers in the next decade.

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BRL 5.5 Billion in New Hydroelectric Plants: Is It the Right Bet for Brazil’s Energy Future?

Exclusive Auction for Small and Medium Plants Determines the Direction of the Energy Matrix with Long-Term Contracts and Points Out the Major Market Players.

Energy Auction Enables 815 MW in Small and Medium Hydroelectric Plants

20-Year Contracts and Start of Supply

Main Buyers in the Hydroelectric Auction

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Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

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