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With this advance in the construction of the Marlim Azul thermal power plant, the municipality of Macaé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, has become known as the “Energy City”
On last Tuesday (09/21), in an interview with journalists, Shell Brazil’s Director of New Energies, Guilherme Perdigão, said that the Marlim Azul thermal power plant is 70% complete and is expected to start operations in January 2023, as planned. The executive emphasized that the first turbine has already arrived in Macaé, where the thermal plant is being built. Read this news: GNA I Thermal Power Plant, located at the Port of Açu, will start operating today after ANEEL’s authorization
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Job Creation in the Works of the Marlim Azul UTE in Macaé
Guilherme Perdigão stated that there are currently more than 1,200 people working on the project as a whole. The Marlim Azul thermal power plant project, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, also includes the construction of a 22-kilometer gas pipeline, in addition to the line that connects it to the system.
According to Perdigão, the Covid-19 pandemic was a major challenge during this construction period, but the decrease in case numbers due to vaccination brings optimism for the coming months. The National Electric Energy Agency has been informed of the challenges faced during the pandemic. The Marlim Azul thermal power plant is expected to receive part of the R$ 3 billion that Shell plans to invest in the country by 2025.
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In August, the thermal power plant began a new phase of construction with the arrival of new equipment
The construction site of the Marlim Azul Thermal Power Plant in Macaé has recorded the delivery of the generator that will be part of the UTE’s production system, one of the most modern and efficient in the world. The 500-ton equipment has the capacity to produce 615 MW (megawatts) per hour of energy, enough to meet the direct consumption of 1.5 million people.
The mayor, Welberth Rezende, said that the project of the Marlim Azul Thermal Power Plant consolidates Macaé as a reference in the state of Rio de Janeiro and in the country as a hub for transforming natural gas into energy, thereby fostering the expanding market and driving our development. This new phase also boosts our economy and has the positive effect of creating job opportunities for our population, says Welberth.
According to Arke Energia, the Marlim Azul Thermal Power Plant in Macaé is expected to be completed by the end of 2022, thus ensuring the production and supply of electricity starting in January 2023. The UTE will have the capacity to produce 565.5 MW of energy and will be the first thermal power plant to use gas produced in the pre-salt layer, provided by Shell.
The New Equipment That Arrived at the Construction Site of the Thermal Power Plant
The equipment destined for the thermal power plant weighs about 500 tons and arrived in the city of Macaé on a 116-meter-long trailer that required a traffic scheme on RJ-168; it has the capacity to produce 615 megawatts per hour (MW/h) of energy, sufficient to meet the direct consumption of 1.5 million people.
To ensure the safe transport of the equipment, the Traffic Coordination team of Macaé’s Urban Mobility Secretariat began operating with vehicles and signage, and the release of vehicle passage started early Monday morning.
According to the Macaé City Hall, at certain times, vehicle passage on RJ-168 was released to alleviate traffic from BR-101 towards Macaé and also the traffic to the mountainous region, which was halted in the morning with buses coming from the Serra diverted by Trevo dos 40, near Cabiúnas. Another important piece in the construction of the Marlim Azul Thermal Power Plant is a turbine, manufactured in Japan by Mitsubishi, which is also expected to arrive in Macaé this month and will ensure the plant’s capacity to produce energy for 24 hours, with the forecast that the UTE will start operations as early as the first quarter of next year.
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