Now Brazil winners face the hard part – getting projects built

How many of the successful bids will be built?

Projects in Brazil’s latest energy tenders that won at low prices face big challenges getting built, Global Wind Energy Council secretary-general Steve Sawyer tells Recharge.

“There is a little bit of danger of this euphoria over prices,” he says. “The challenge now is to create the conditions for these projects to be built and be profitable, and that’s not going to happen by itself.”

He says developers are going to need government support with infrastructure, financing and reducing administrative and other barriers if they are to be successful.

Sawyer cautions that the lowest prices bid in August’s tenders reduce the margin of error “to almost zero”.

“I think R$132 [$80]/MWh is eminently doable. I think R$120 is…

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