Through
is distributors Celpe (PE) and Cosern (RN), Neoenergia keep
reinforcing the reliability in energy supply for its customers in all
points of its concession area. Between January and June, five
substations were energized in two states of the Northeast. The
projects are in line with the company’s guidelines for
technological expansion and system digitalization and started
operations in the cities of Bodocó, Goiana, Ipojuca and Canhotinho,
in Pernambuco and in Itajá, Rio Grande do Norte. The units expand
energy supply for important decentralized hubs, such as the Southern
Coast beaches and the industrial pole in Goiana, Pernambuco and Rio
Grande do Norte’s Hinterland, an important potter pole in the
region.
In
total, over 40 thousand customers will be directly benefited by the
energization of these substations. “The delivery of these projects
represents Neoenergia’s and its distributors’ commitment in
continuing improving the service provided to the customers not only
in the big urban centers, such as capitals, but also in decentralized
poles and with great touristic and industrial potential. The projects
also feature the best technologies currently applied in the
distribution sector”, says Joe Morra, Neoenergia’s Expansion
superintendent.
TRANSMISSION LINES
In
addition to the projects delivered by Celpe and Cosern, Neoenergia
was granted with the construction license for the Transmission Line
in Paraíba and Ceará and already holds the previous license for one
of the projects that will be built in Rio Grande do Sul. The first
project, 345-km long, between Paraíba and Ceará, will also have the
construction of a new 500-kV substation in Santa Luzia, in Paraíba’s
countryside. The second project will cross five cities in Rio Grande
do Sul: Santana do Livramento, Rosário do Sul, São Gabriel,
Dilermando de Aguiar and Santa Maria, will be 225-km long with 230-kV
capacity – it is a part of Lot 04, that will include three
additional Transmission Lines: Povo Novo – Guaíba, with 234 km and
525kV; Capivari do Sul – Siderópolis 2, with 225.2 km and 525kV
and Siderópolis 2 – Forquilhinha, with 27.2 km and 230kV. When
completed, the project will contribute for flowing the wind energy
generated in the region, strengthening the electric system of the
South Region and the National Interconnected System (SIN)
Such
investments are part of the results already disclosed by Neoenergia
in the previous months, reaffirming the company’s commitment in
increasing the reliability of the service provided to its more than
14 million customers in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio Grande
do Norte, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul.