Brazil Senate to debate offshore wind power framework

(epbr) The Federal Senate may finally begin a public debate on the bill that initially created a framework for offshore wind power generation, creating a system for contracting the areas.

A public hearing is scheduled to be held in the Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday (8/20), after the meeting that will discuss the Fuel of the Future report, but the agenda has not yet been confirmed.

The text was approved in the Chamber with several amendments for natural gas thermoelectric generation projects, in addition to renewables, which delays the discussion on the original topic.

Several agents interested in the development of offshore wind power have been mobilizing to ensure that the text is sent for sanction in the second half of the year.

It is a project of interest to the energy sector, but also to the oil and gas sector, with several large oil companies positioned for a future dispute over the areas.

There is no agreement. The Lula government officially maintains a position against the amendments, while rapporteur Weverton Rocha (PDT/MA) says he will simply reject the amendments approved by the Chamber of Deputies.

At an event last week, Weverton argued that it is possible to make changes to the wind power framework itself, without sending the text back to the Chamber of Deputies. And as for the two main issues that have held up the process – contracting gas-fired thermal plants and extending contracts for coal-fired plants – it would be up to the government to decide whether to sanction or veto them:

“The person who will decide whether to veto or not is His Excellency [the President of the Republic], who is in charge of public energy policy, which is the Executive Branch. This would get us out of this mess [more] quickly.”

Senate to debate offshore wind power framework

(epbr) The Federal Senate may finally begin a public debate on the bill that initially created a framework for offshore wind power generation, creating a system for contracting the areas.

A public hearing is scheduled to be held in the Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday (8/20), after the meeting that will discuss the Fuel of the Future report, but the agenda has not yet been confirmed.

The text was approved in the Chamber with several amendments for natural gas thermoelectric generation projects, in addition to renewables, which delays the discussion on the original topic.

Several agents interested in the development of offshore wind power have been mobilizing to ensure that the text is sent for sanction in the second half of the year.

It is a project of interest to the energy sector, but also to the oil and gas sector, with several large oil companies positioned for a future dispute over the areas.

There is no agreement. The Lula government officially maintains a position against the amendments, while rapporteur Weverton Rocha (PDT/MA) says he will simply reject the amendments approved by the Chamber of Deputies.

At an event last week, Weverton argued that it is possible to make changes to the wind power framework itself, without sending the text back to the Chamber of Deputies. And as for the two main issues that have held up the process – contracting gas-fired thermal plants and extending contracts for coal-fired plants – it would be up to the government to decide whether to sanction or veto them:

“The person who will decide whether to veto or not is His Excellency [the President of the Republic], who is in charge of public energy policy, which is the Executive Branch. This would get us out of this mess [more] quickly.”

(epbr) The Federal Senate may finally begin a public debate on the bill that initially created a framework for offshore wind power generation, creating a system for contracting the areas.

A public hearing is scheduled to be held in the Infrastructure Committee on Tuesday (8/20), after the meeting that will discuss the Fuel of the Future report, but the agenda has not yet been confirmed.

The text was approved in the Chamber with several amendments for natural gas thermoelectric generation projects, in addition to renewables, which delays the discussion on the original topic.

Several agents interested in the development of offshore wind power have been mobilizing to ensure that the text is sent for sanction in the second half of the year.

It is a project of interest to the energy sector, but also to the oil and gas sector, with several large oil companies positioned for a future dispute over the areas.

There is no agreement. The Lula government officially maintains a position against the amendments, while rapporteur Weverton Rocha (PDT/MA) says he will simply reject the amendments approved by the Chamber of Deputies.

At an event last week, Weverton argued that it is possible to make changes to the wind power framework itself, without sending the text back to the Chamber of Deputies. And as for the two main issues that have held up the process – contracting gas-fired thermal plants and extending contracts for coal-fired plants – it would be up to the government to decide whether to sanction or veto them:

“The person who will decide whether to veto or not is His Excellency [the President of the Republic], who is in charge of public energy policy, which is the Executive Branch. This would get us out of this mess [more] quickly.”