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Flexibility Unlocks 874 MW-a for the Free Electric Energy Market

marcosardenberg Dec 13, 2018

Reduction of load limits for conventional energy contracting opens a potential market for 1,197 consumer units, estimates Aneel

Oil & Gas

TCU Requires More Information About Transfer of Rights Areas

Roberto Francellino Dec 13, 2018

The Court's technical analysis considered the information previously forwarded by the ministry to be "precarious and incomplete"

Power

Aben Proposes Resumption of Studies for New Nuclear Plants in Brazil

Gisele de Oliveira Dec 11, 2018

The Agency believes that power source may be the solution to complement intermittency of wind and solar energy in the matrix

Oil & Gas

Profile: The New Mines and Energy Minister

Claudia Siqueira Dec 3, 2018

Market is surprised by the name of Adm. Bento Costa Lima Leite de Albuquerque Júnior, selected over other industry favorites

Oil & Gas

Adm. Bento Costa Lima named new Energy Minister

Roberto Francellino Nov 30, 2018

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro recently announced the appointment of the General Director of Nuclear and Technological Development of the Navy

Power

Roraima SIN Connection Negotiations Advance

marcosardenberg Nov 13, 2018

Transnorte Energia informs that contentious issues with the Waimiri Atroari indigenous community are being resolved

Oil & Gas

LNG Regasification: August Sees Biggest Volume since 2015

matheusgagliano Nov 13, 2018

The supply of liquefied gas hit 20.5 million m³/d, due to the interruption of production on the Mexilhão platform

Oil & Gas

BEHIND THE NEWS: Bolsonaro Team’s Jig-saw Puzzle Begins To Take Shape

Roberto Francellino Nov 6, 2018

After the victory celebrations, the president-elect is slotting in the first pieces

Power

MME Extinguishes Eletrosul Transmission Project

matheusgagliano Nov 5, 2018

The Secretariat of Energy Planning will now have to find a solution to offset the impact of not having the project

Oil & Gas

New Gov’t Will Maintain MME As Is

Claudia Siqueira Nov 1, 2018

The Bolsonaro administration does not intend to merge Mines and Energy with Transportation

Power

Biomass Cogeneration Awaiting MME Measure

Antonio Carlos Sil Oct 31, 2018

An increase in the physical guarantee of sugarcane mills could help the electric power sector preserve reservoir levels

Power

The Bolsonaro Win and The Challenges of the Electric Sector

Gisele de Oliveira Oct 30, 2018

The president-elect has important issues to deal with in order to open up the electric power sector quickly

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From the Media

Dec 14, 2018 - Reuters

Brazil’s epic “Car Wash” corruption investigation has taken down presidents and elite businessmen, and led to the largest corporate leniency deal ever signed. But graft allegations lodged by prosecutors last week against four of the world’s largest oil trading companies - Vitol SA, Trafigura, Glencore PLC and Mercuria Energy Group - have opened an explosive new phase in the long-running probe. Federal prosecutors allege the European multinationals and some smaller players collectively paid at least US$ 31 million in bribes over a six-year period to employees at Brazil’s state-led oil company Petrobras to sell them oil at sweetheart prices. They said the firms’ top brass had “total and unequivocal” knowledge that they were fleecing Petrobras and that the illicit activity may still be ongoing.

Dec 14, 2018 - Renewables Now

Brazil's power sector regulator Aneel approved on Tuesday the final two green projects with a combined capacity of 49 MW from the A-6 energy auction held on August 31, 2018. The approved schemes include the 29-MW Bela Vista small hydropower plant (SHP) and the 20-MW Rio Vermelho 3 biomass facility. Bela Vista is owned by a consortium formed by Copel Geracao e Transmissao SA, a subsidiary of Brazilian power utility Copel (BVMF:CPLE6), and local energy firm Foz do Chopim Energetica Ltda. The biomass project was secured by Glencane Bioenergia SA.

Dec 14, 2018 - Energyworld

France's EDF faces delay in Brazil hydroelectric dam over clearing trees. A consortium led by Electricite de France SA is ready to fill the reservoir of a hydroelectric dam built in Brazil's soy belt, but could be delayed by a year over removal of trees from the area to be flooded, the company and state officials said. Prosecutors are asking Mato Grosso's state environmental agency to deny the 402 megawatt HPP Sinop dam an operating license until all the vegetation is cleared, which could add US$ 103 million) to its R$ 2.9 billion price tag. If the trees are not removed, environmentalists say, the wood will rot in the water and create methane gas emissions that will contribute to global warming and pollute downstream waters.

Dec 14, 2018 - Dialogo Chino

Mired in a profound and lengthy economic crisis, the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which holds 90% of Brazil’s coal reserves, has opted to expand mining and create a coal gasification center. The initiative would enable the government, billions of dollars in debt, to create thousands of jobs but also risks locking-in into high-carbon energy infrastructure. As the state set out to find foreign investors for the project, it found China. “We know that China as a whole has been investing in the area of energy,” says Susana Kakuta, Rio Grande do Sul state secretary of mines and energy. “China uses technologies that are already well-established worldwide, so it is a big win-win, for them and for Brazil, especially for Rio Grande do Sul, in a new opportunity for coal from our state.”