Porto do Delta Wind Power Plant CDM Project

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Parnaiba, State of Piaui, Northeast of Brazil

Porto do Delta Wind Power Plant CDM Project

Porto do Delta Wind Power Plant CDM Project (PDWPP) consists of the construction and operation of a wind power plant with 30.8 MW of installed capacity that will supply clean electricity to the Brazilian National Interconnected System (SIN, from its acronym in Portuguese, “Sistema Interligado Nacional”). In spite of a great potential for their development, wind power generation activities, such as the Porto do Delta Project, so far only represent a small share of the Brazilian electric matrix. According to the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL, from its acronym in Portuguese, “Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica”), wind power plants represent 12.6% of the country’s installed capacity. Given this context, projects like Porto do Delta represent an important renewable and clean non-conventional alternative for electricity generation and a valuable contribution to the diversification of the Brazilian energy matrix. The baseline scenario is the same scenario existing before the implementation of the project activity, that is, the electricity delivered to the grid by the project activity would have otherwise been generated by the operation of grid-connected power plants and by the addition of new generation sources, as reflected in the combined margin calculations according to “Tool to calculate the emission factor for an electric system”.

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