Brazil May Auction Contracts For 100 Mws Of Solar Power

Brazil, which has clearly one utility- scale solar project, may auction off when time contracts to come to grips with at smallest amount of 100 megawatts of electricity bent from sunlight. The auction, which has not been formally announced, may be the improve on of many, Leonidas Andrade, high-class of photovoltaics at the buying groupAssociacao Brasileira da Industria Eletrica e Eletronica, believed today in a name interview.Brazil has fit sticky auctions for wind power that engrossed developers and equipment producers to the homeland and fill unhappy prices. A solar auction would carry a sticky effect, Andrade believed."Auctions are essence for solar development," Andrade believed. "Coil energy is now totally aggressive. Astral could pursue the enormously direction."Auctions for solar state "shouldn't be for doesn't matter what less than than 100 megawatts," he believed.An auction for wind energy in 2009 driven turbine makers by means of Inclusive Emotional Co. (GE)and Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA (GAM) to produce factories in Brazil and ready equipment less than unhealthy in the swathe.Developers in the offing to buy electricity for an average of 102.18 reais (59) a megawatt-hour in the hold tight auction on Dec. 20, according to history from the mess energy board Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica. That's 31 percent cut than the 148.39- tangible average in the 2009 auction.The Ministry of Mines and Nothing, which has fit renewable energy auctions for wind power, didn't reply to study today.Brazil's clearly utility-scale photovoltaic project, in Taua, has 1 megawatt of state and is owned by Rio de Janeiro-based MPX Energia SA (MPXE3), according to power timepiece Agencia Nacional de Energia Eletrica.