Piauí received a total investment of R$ 4,8 billion for the two complexes, with 4.200 direct jobs generated at the peak of the works, which are now in the final stages.
The largest wind and solar parks in South America are being built in Piauí – Lagoa dos Ventos and São Gonçalo, respectively. The projects are being built by Enel Green Power Brasil (EGP), in the municipalities of Lagoa do Barro and São Gonçalo do Gurguéia.
The total investment in the two complexes is R$ 4,8 billion, with 4.200 direct jobs generated at the peak of the works, which are now in the final stages. Lagoa dos Ventos is, currently, EGP's largest wind project in the world and is expected to start operating in 2021. This year, Parque Solar São Gonçalo began operating the first stage of the project., from 475 MW, and the company is finalizing the construction of the first expansion of 133 park MW.
“Piauí, today, is one of the states that is at the forefront of renewable energy generation, especially solar energy and wind energy. We can say that, in the wind power ranking, Piauí ranks fifth among the largest producers of this type of energy in Brazil, second only to Bahia, large northern river, Ceará and Rio Grande do Sul; as for solar energy, we are the third, but we are the state that builds the most and has the most promising future in terms of the potential for generating this energy", pointed out Wilson Brandão, Secretary of State for Mining, Oil and Renewable Energy (Seminper).
currently, considering the installed capacity of all Enel's solar projects in Brazil (under construction and operation), near 70% is in Piauí. To the wind source, they are 44%. This means that the state has great potential for generating renewable solar and wind energy and already has in its energy matrix large centralized generation projects in operation, which generates more and more social development, with job opportunities for the population.
Brandão highlighted this important moment that Piauí is experiencing in job generation, both in the area of renewable energies and in the power transmission lines being built in the state.
"Our state is experiencing a very important moment in this part of the construction of new works, of new auctions, that will occur in 2021 and Piauí is included in them, e, mainly employment and income, because we have thousands of workers, of families from Piauí who are having job opportunities in these construction works for solar and wind energy parks, as well as in the area of transmission lines and substations", said the secretary.
Piauí: high tech!
The São Gonçalo Solar Park, located in São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, is Enel Green Power's first project to use bifacial solar modules, that capture solar energy from both sides of the panel. Innovative modules should increase power generation by up to 18% and reduce in 11% the area occupied by the panels. The entire plant, from 608 MW, will be able to generate more than 1.500 GWh per year, avoiding the issuance of more than 860.000 tons of CO2 in the atmosphere annually.
"The forecast for the São Gonçalo do Gurguéia Park to start operating is 2021. This makes us very happy, because we arrived in regions of difficult access, that we had almost no possibility of new jobs. Today we have thousands of people from Piauí working and building new projects", commented Wilson Brandão.
Lagoa dos Ventos, the largest wind farm in latin america
The Lagoa dos Ventos Wind Farm is located in the municipalities of Lagoa do Barro do Piauí., Queimada Nova and Dom Inocêncio and has innovative construction elements, as machine proximity sensors to increase safety on construction sites, drones to perform topographic analysis, Intelligent Turbine Component Trackers, as well as digital platforms and software solutions to remotely monitor and support field activities.
The plant will have, altogether, 230 wind turbines and, once fully functioning, may generate more than 3,3 TWh per year, avoiding the issuance of more than 1,6 million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.
"The construction of new renewable energy production parks in Piauí will add value to everything that is being done in the regions where they are located. are new restaurants, new hotels, inns, transport system, the roads and hospitals that are being improved, all this demonstrating that Piauí has great potential", completed the manager of Seminper.
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