Enel Green Power (EGP) will add 29MW of additional wind capacity to its operational 180MW Delfina wind farm in Bahia, Brazil.
The extra capacity, costing $40 million, will come online in 2019 and bring the project past the 200MW mark. The first phase became operational in 2017.
Delfina’s expansion is one of three wind EGP projects given the green light in Brazil. The others are the 510MW Lagoa dos Ventos in the state of Piauí and the 78MW Morro do Chapéu II wind farm, in Bahia.
From 2019 to 2022, the energy generated from Delfina’s expansion will be sold on the free market, then, from 2023, the wind plant will be supported by 20-year power supply contracts, enabling sale of specified volumes of energy generated to a pool of distribution companies operating in the Brazilian regulated market.
In Brazil, EGP and its parent Enel have a total installed renewables capacity of more than 2.9GW. The majority is from hydro, while 842MW comes from wind and 819MW comes from solar PV, making it the largest renewable energy company in Brazil by capacity and plants.