The country has also received a show of massive interest from energy companies into building offshore wind farms in its waters.
So far, 74 applications for environmental investigation licences in connection with offshore wind projects have been submitted to the Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA), totalling almost 183 GW of capacity across all the proposed projects.
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Many of the projects have been proposed by European developers, including oil & gas majors TotalEnergies, Shell, and Equinor and floating wind developers BlueFloat and Qair, with Brazil’s Petrobras teaming up with Equinor.
Green hydrogen is also part of some of the proposals, such as that from Neoenergia, Iberdrola’s subsidiary in Brazil, which plans to build 3 GW offshore wind farms in three Brazilian states, including Rio Grande do Sul, where the company had earlier signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the State Government to pursue the development of offshore wind and a project for the production of green hydrogen.
One of the offshore wind applications filed with IBAMA is from H2 Green Power, a green hydrogen developer which had also signed an agreement with the Government of Ceará for green hydrogen production at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex.
Qair, which also has offshore wind plans in this Brazilian state, also entered into an agreement with the Ceará government to power a green hydrogen plant at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex with offshore wind.
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