This will be the company's secondattempt to sell power in auctions after failing to win contracts at the A-5auction in 2013. The five wind farms comprise the Cutia Complex.

Selling power at auctions ispart of Copel's strategy to grow in the renewable energy market after it was spunoff in October 2013. It plans to continue acquiring wind assets and is now appraisingsome in Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte, he says.

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