Enel Green Power Brasil (EGPB) Participações has started the construction of the 172MW Morro do Chapéu Sul wind farm cluster in the state of Bahia in north-eastern Brazil.
The cluster, which is located in the municipalities of Morro do Chapéu and Cafarnaum, consists of six facilities.
They are the Ventos de Santa Esperança, Ventos de Santa Dulce, Ventos de São Paulo and Ventos de São Abraão projects, each of which will have capacity of 28MW, and the Ventos de São Mário and Boa Vista, with 30MW each.
The $380m cluster is owned by four special purpose vehicles held by EGPB and is expected to enter into service in the first half of 2018.
Four of the cluster’s wind farms are supported by 20-year power supply contracts with a pool of Brazilian electricity distribution companies, which EGPB was awarded following the 2014 energy auction launched by the country’s Electricity Regulatory Agency.
The remaining two wind farms – Ventos de São Abraão and Boa Vista – are supported by a 20-year power purchase agreement signed in the free market, Enel said.
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