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The Wind Farm Fontes dos Ventos II Is Located in the Expanses of Sertão Where the First Solar and Wind Energy Park in Brazil Operates
It is in the Sertão of Pernambuco, in the municipality of Taracatu, that the new wind farm, Fontes dos Ventos II, is being established.
The renewable energy plant has a capacity of 99MW and received about R$430 million in capital for its development.
Construction Is Located in the Same Region as Enel Green Power in Brazil
The construction is located in the same region of the Sertão of Pernambuco as Enel Green Power, a company that generates electricity through renewable sources, which has been operating since 2015 the first hybrid solar and wind park in the country, combining the wind farm Fontes dos Ventos I and the Fontes Solar project.
The Fontes dos Ventos II plant is part of a project of new plants by Enel that were built during the pandemic.
Moreover, strict safety protocols were followed according to the stipulated health specifications in order to ensure the safety of the workers involved in the construction of the wind farm, as well as the well-being of the community in the Sertão where it is located. Enel also implemented some actions to benefit the local population around the wind farm, such as providing technical rural advice to about 60 farmers, workshops with agroecology techniques for families, and encouraging family farming practices. One of the beneficiaries of the workshop, farmer Ivone Cosma dos Santos, 39, says: “I learned to make an organic compost to fertilize the soil without now having to use synthetic fertilizer. I also learned to make a natural spray to kill pests. I applied this spray to the jaboticaba and soursop trees and it was wonderful because I didn’t need to buy pesticides.”
Start of Operations Is Considered a Symbolic Milestone for the Sertão of Pernambuco
The start of activities at the Fontes dos Ventos II wind farm is a symbolic milestone for the expansion of renewable energy sources in the Sertão and the country in recent years.
“We are expanding our installed wind capacity in a region where we have had a presence for years. Long before the recent resolution of the regulatory agency for the development of hybrid plants in the country, we installed a pioneering project in that region of Pernambuco with a wind and solar park built side by side. It was a project that generated important learnings for the company and other sector agents, allowing opportunities to study the complementarity of the sources and stimulate the regulation of associated projects,” says Roberta Bonomi, head of Enel Green Power in Brazil.
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Wind Farm Has 18 Renewable Energy Wind Turbines
The wind farm has 18 wind turbines that together will be capable of generating more than 421 GWh of energy annually. Sustainably, the energy production of the wind farm has the capacity to prevent the emission of around 230 kilotonnes of CO2 per year, in addition to avoiding the consumption of 97 million cubic meters of gas per year that will be replaced by clean renewable energy produced in the country. The energy produced at the wind farm is supplied to the free market for sale to commercial customers through Enel Trading, a trading company of the group. Also, in July 2021, Enel established, for the next 15 years, a partnership with Lojas Renner to meet the energy demand of 170 stores and 1 distribution center of the brand with clean energy developed at the wind farm.
In Partnership with an Australian Company, Ceará Invests R$ 50 Billion in Offshore Wind Energy Park
After offshore energy, i.e., energy from the sea, was regulated in Brazil, projects began to emerge rapidly. The state of Ceará was a pioneer and one of the key players in this new modality, with the Maritime Wind Central project in Acaraú, a municipality on the West Coast of the state. One of its planned investments in offshore wind energy is imminent, as the signing of a memorandum of understanding is about to occur. To learn more, click here to read this complete article.
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