After Winning The Auction Held By Aneel In August 2018, Techint E&C Secured The Contract For The Parnaíba V Thermoelectric Plant In Maranhão With The Start Of Construction In 2019
Techint E&C won the bidding process conducted by the company Eneva for a Turn Key EPC contract for the construction of the Parnaíba V thermoelectric plant in Maranhão. On Friday, August 31, the plant participated in the energy auction held by the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) and emerged victorious.
Techint will carry out the construction and assembly of the Parnaíba V project, which consists of closing the cycle of the Parnaíba I Plant, which currently operates in open cycle. The only natural gas project contracted in the auction, the UTE Parnaíba will have an installed capacity of 386 MW and 326 MW of average physical guarantee and will be located in the Parnaíba Thermoelectric Complex, in Maranhão, Brazil.
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The equipment will be supplied by GE, which has extensive experience in turbine technology and cycle closure.
“This contract is the result of teamwork from various areas of the company, which offered the client competitiveness and creative solutions,” says Luis Guilherme de Sá, Commercial Director of Techint E&C in Brazil. “In addition, securing a contract for a thermoelectric plant was planned in our strategic planning. The challenge now is to maintain this attitude shift with a focus on competitiveness when executing the project as planned.”
The start of construction is expected in the second quarter of 2019. Eneva operates in the sectors of generation, commercialization, and logistics of electricity and is considered the largest private energy generation company in Brazil.
Other Techint Projects Across Brazil
It is also worth noting that it acquired another large-scale contract in Minas Gerais which, according to the company itself, at the peak of these works will employ around 2,100 workers. Check the article here for details, and maybe even a job in this project is possible to get.
The P-76, the FPSO, was another project of Techint built at the Pontal do Paraná shipyard and successfully delivered to Petrobras for pre-salt operations, which utilized 70% local content, meaning labor and equipment almost predominantly from Brazil. Learn more here.

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