The energy infrastructure company Orion-E announced this Tuesday (23) an agreement for the development and delivery of photovoltaic solar plants to the trader Bolt Energy.
The projects, classified as distributed generation, add up to 500 megawatts (MW) of power and are expected to require around R$3.2 billion in investments, Orion-E CCO Hugo Albuquerque told Reuters.
Under the terms of the partnership, Orion-E is responsible for developing the projects, validating the technical part and the financial structuring, in addition to assisting in the financing of the plant built and already performed.
Bolt will do the commercial part with final consumers, working in the sale and compensation of the generated energy. For traders, having their own generation assets has become increasingly important to guarantee energy backing in energy purchase and sale operations with customers.
The solar plants of the project with Bolt, called Rigel600, will be spread across several states in the country, such as Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and the Federal District, and will be delivered over the next 24 months.
According to Albuquerque, Orion-E, which started operations last year, already has a portfolio of 1.2 GW in projects of different sizes of solar and wind sources, developed or under development. The company does not reveal how many of its ventures are already operational or the names of other clients.
The executive says that Orion-E’s strategy is to act in a “gap” in the market, adding more services to customers than a simple EPC project construction company.
For this, it relies on the expertise of other companies in the controlling group – Orion-E is an investee of One Serviços Digitas, a payroll loan fintech that also operates in the fields of logistics, recycling, art, fashion and luxury retail.
In the coming years, the company has the goal of investing a total of R$ 5 billion in the segments of distributed generation (small power plants), centralized generation and microgeneration.
The amount includes funds for the agreement with Bolt and other parallel projects, such as “Três Marias”, aimed at energy solutions for small agribusiness producers.
The Três Marias project, whose pilot will be launched in the coming months with 300 rural properties, provides for collaboration with family farming, leasing land for the production of solar energy in the form of microgeneration, with 75 kilowatts-peak (kWp).
Source: CNN Brasil
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