Brazil

Company profile

Enel Brasil Participações Ltda. is a subsidiary of Enel Green Power dedicated to the development and management of power generation from renewable resources in Brazil, since 2006.

The company has around 200 employees working in the offices of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Cuiabá and Palmas, besides in the power plants, where we operate 20 small hydro plants with total installed capacity of 93 MW 

(fully distributed within the hydroelectric), in the states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Sao Paulo.

In the coming years the company will add more 287 MW to its portfolio for the construction of wind power plants in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte, thanks for the winning projects in wind power auctions, held in 2010 and 2011.

Enel Green Power in Brazil has also been developing projects for the use of solar energy, some of them with the partnership of Endesa Brazil. 

Developing projects

Cristal Complex

  • Municipality: Morro do Chapéu and Bonito – state of Bahia
  • Capacity: 90 MW
  • Type: Wind
  • Operation: foreseen to September/2013

Curva dos Ventos Complex

  • Municipality: Igaporã – state of Bahia
  • Capacity: 56,4 MW
  • Type: Wind
  • Operation: foreseen to January/2014

Fontes dos Ventos Complex

  • Municipality: Tacaratu – state of Pernambuco
  • Capacity: 79,9 MW
  • Type: Wind
  • Operation: foreseen to January/2014

Modelo Complex

  • Municipality: João Câmara – state of Rio Grande do Norte
  • Capacity: 61,1 MW
  • Type: Wind
  • Operation: foreseen to January/2014

Main focus of CSR/stakeholders relations

Thanks to the  Play Energy project,  an Enel program targeted to schools, EGP in Brasil can build upon a positive relationship from those living along our business areas.  Over the next months, EGP in Brasil will strengthen its commitment with local communities by deploying social and environmental actions, as social communication and environmental education programs, during the construction of the wind farms.

Last Updated: 31 March 2013

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