The Enel Group’s Brazilian renewable energy subsidiary Enel Green Power Brasil Participações Ltda. ("EGPB") has started commercial operations of the 133 MW expansion of the already up and running 475 MW São Gonçalo solar PV plant, which is South America’s largest PV facility, located in the municipality of São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, in Brazil’s northeastern state of Piauí, as it was informed by Enel.
The construction of the 133 MW section involved an investment of around 422 million Brazilian reais, equivalent to approximately 100 million euros.
Enel is investing around 735 million Brazilian reais, equivalent to approx. 142 million US dollars, in the construction of a new 256 MW extension of São Gonçalo, which will bring the overall capacity of the park São Gonçalo to 864 MW, making it Enel’s largest power generation facility under construction worldwide.
Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas, and renewables markets. Enel distributes electricity through a network of over 2.2 million kilometers, and with more than 74 million business and household end users globally, the Group has the largest global customer base among its European peers. Enel’s renewables arm Enel Green Power is the world’s largest renewable private player, with over 47 GW of wind, solar, geothermal, and hydropower plants installed in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
