Brazil may hold new RE tender as Northeast states warn of 'doom'

Brazil’s mines and energy Minister Fernando Coelho Filho has commissioned studies to prepare a solar and wind tender for the first half of 2017, signalling the continuation of Brazil’s auction-centred renewable energy policies after the last-minute cancellation of the reserve tender in 2016.

Mines and Energy Ministry officials said that studies for the necessity of a tender would be done by a newly created Committee for the Management of Energetic Information that will be comprise regulator Aneel, the federal energetic planning authority EPE, the National Grid Operator and the oil and gas sector regulator ANP.