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GNA starts work on second

TPP at Açu Gas Hub

PROJECTS & GAS Natural Açu (GNA), the joint venture that has an installed capacity of 1,338 MW, last Octo-
COMPANIES is carrying out Latin America’s largest LNG-to- ber. The facility, which was built at a cost of $1bn,
power project, has launched construction work is capable of generating enough electricity for
on GNA-II, its second natural gas-fired thermal 6mn households.
power plant (TPP) at the Açu Gas Hub complex GNA aims to build two more 1,672-MW
in Rio de Janeiro State. plants, GNA-III and GNA-IV, at the Açu Gas
In a press release, GNA said it had laid the Hub complex. These TPPs will increase the com-
foundation stone for the new TPP on January plex’s generating capacity by more than 3.3 GW,
31 to mark the official start of construction. The bringing its total installed capacity up to 6.354
government of Brazil confirmed its announce- GW and making it the biggest facility of its kind
ment, saying in a separate statement that Presi- in Latin America.
dent Jair Bolsonaro, Energy and Mining Minister The joint venture also hopes to expand
Bento Albuquerque, Infrastructure Minister the hub to include onshore gas pipelines and
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas and the president’s a gas-processing unit. It has said it intends to
chief of staff, Ciro Nogueira, had attended the invest about $5bn in the gas and power complex.
launch ceremony. The Açu Gas Hub is near producing gas
The TPP is due to begin operating in Janu- fields in Brazil’s offshore zone and will be able
ary 2025. When finished it will have an installed to benefit from plans for the construction of a Siemens has
capacity of 1,672 MW, enough to supply energy 500-kV transmission line in the region. It is also
for up to 8mn households. According to previ- capable of importing up to 28mn cubic metres agreed to build
ous reports, it already has at least 3 GW of long- per day of LNG via a floating storage and regas-
term power purchase agreements (PPAs) under ification unit (FSRU) known as the BW Magna, the TPPs, while
contract. which received its first LNG cargo from BP in
The cost of building the power plant is likely late 2020. Prumo operates
to reach $1.12bn, according to Siemens Energy, GNA’s founding members are Siemens (Ger- the BW Magna
a US-German division of the German conglom- many), BP (UK) and Prumo, a private Brazilian
erate Siemens, which is a member of the BNA entity controlled by EIG Global Energy Partners FSRU.
consortium. Siemens has formed a consortium (US). Siemens has agreed to build the TPPs,
with Andrade Gutierrez, a Brazilian holding, to while Prumo operates the BW Magna FSRU. BP,
build the GNA-II TPP under a $1.1bn contract. for its part, is supplying the terminal with LNG.
The German company will be responsible for The joint venture also includes China’s State
delivering one steam turbine, three HL-class gas Power Investment Corp. (SPIC), which com-
turbines, three heat-recovery steam generators pleted its acquisition of a stake in GNA early last
and four electric generators, while Andrade Gut- year. The joint venture said at the time that the
ierrez will provide services related to civil works, Chinese company had acquired a 33% stake in
installation and infrastructure. the GNA-I and GNA-II TPPs, as well as the Açu
Brazil’s national electricity regulator ANEEL Gas Hub. It also noted that SPIC had finalised
authorised GNA to start commercial operations an agreement that would allow it to participate
at its first TPP, known as GNA-I, last year. The in the future expansion of the complex via the
joint venture commissioned that plant, which construction of GNA-III and GNA-IV.™

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