The new wind energy park will have a capacity to generate 239 MW of energy and works are expected to start in 2022.
The city of Tapes, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, will have a wind farm with capacity to generate 239 MW of energy and works are expected to start in 2022. The project is by the company Brain Energy, with an investment of R$ 1,09 billion. The news was announced in last Tuesday's (12th) edition of Jornal do Comércio. Also read this news: First offshore wind power tower in Ceará will be built next to Complexo do Pecém
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Details about the new wind farm
The new wind farm will be installed in Capão Alto and will have 69 wind turbines, 114 meters high each. The planning already has all the necessary licenses, including the environmental one, and is in the final phase of financial modeling. The wind turbines will be placed in an area of 3 thousand hectares, between the BR-116 and the urban area of Tapes, being crossed by the ERS-717.
The project for a new wind farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul has been under development for over five years and has faced some obstacles. This will be the first wind complex in the Costa Doce region. In Rio Grande do Sul, there are wind turbines on the North Coast (in Osório, Palmares do Sul, Xangri-lá and Tramandaí), in the Metropolitan Region (Viamão), on the South Coast (Rio Grande, Santa Vitória do Palmar and Chuí) and on the Border West (in Santana do Livramento).
Future investments in the park
The wind energy park will be named Capão Alto and should start commercial production from 2024. According to the company, the energy produced should be sold in free trade to the private sector. In addition, future investments are estimated at R$ 1,5 billion, for a second stage with the expansion of the complex and increase in energy production by another 350 MW.
Check out this news: Federal Government will regulate exploration of offshore wind energy by the end of the year
The Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, assured on Wednesday, October 6, that by the end of this year the Federal Government will regulate the exploitation of offshore wind energy. Today, there are still no defined rules about the entry of this source in the matrix, although environmental agencies such as Ibama have already been moving towards advances and have projects under analysis.
The state of Ceará is one of the main stakeholders in this regulation of the Federal government. Of the almost 40 GW of production capacity in the country of offshore wind energy, almost a third are projects to be developed on the coast of Ceará. The developments Caucaia and Asa Branca, both on the coast of Ceará, have the oldest evaluation processes, respectively from 2016 and 2017.
Only Ceará, based on data from the Wind and Solar Atlas, has a production potential of 117,2 GW, which exceeds the 2,8 GW of installed power that serves the state. Brazil has 5 thousand GW of potential. The minister also highlighted that the country should not have the return of summer time, a measure identified as a solution for reducing energy consumption. Still according to the minister, the Government guarantees “total governance” over the water crisis and that we will not have blackouts.
