Análise das implantações de usinas eólicas no Ceará de 2010 a 2016 e comparativo com outros estados

Abstract

Wind power is currently an attractive option for entrepreneurs in the power generation area. Due to its great potential, Brazil’s northeastern region has recently had a large expansion of wind farms, especially in the states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia. The state of Ceará, the pioneer in the wind energy exploration in Brazil, has been losing space to these states in this regard, falling from first to fourth place in the rank of wind energy production. In order to survey the wind farm’s implantations in Ceará from 2010 to 2016 and compare them with those of others states, data were collected from the National Agency of Electric Energy and the Generation Information Bank in regards of wind farm granting permissions issued since 2010 and it was noticed that the majority of the 282 implantations in the referred states did not meet the commercial operation’s deadlines that were stated in the grating permissions. Besides, from the data provided by the Ceará State’s Regulatory Agency of Delegated Public Services, the main reasons for changes in the wind farms’s implementation schedule in Ceará are related to problems regarding transmission lines, connections to the power grid, suppliers and financing. Thus, it is concluded that in general there is a slowness in the installations of the wind power plants, and its causes can be numerous.