📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), in partnership with the Energy Research Company (EPE), held, this Wednesday (11/09), the workshop "New paradigms for planning the expansion of transmission for the connection of hydrogen production plants: How to reduce information asymmetry and accelerate decision-making".
Currently, Brazil has eleven hydrogen projects with studies underway, scheduled to be connected at specific points in the grid, totaling an installed capacity of 45 GW by 2038. This promising data, if confirmed at the announced pace, could radically impact the national energy scenario in the long term and culminated in the inclusion of a study for the expansion of the Basic Grid of the National Interconnected System in the EPE Transmission Planning Studies Program for the year 2024.
“The workshop is taking place at a very opportune time, given the crucial role that hydrogen plays in the energy transition. This work being developed by the MME and EPE, together with the legal framework for low-carbon hydrogen recently sanctioned by President Lula, will contribute to the diversification of our energy matrix, opening up new economic and development opportunities for our country,” said the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira.
The information obtained from the contributions of the agents at the event will be used to define the premises of the transmission expansion planning study to be started in 2024.
For the Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Thiago Barral, planning is facing major dilemmas, such as making decisions under uncertainty and establishing benchmarks for this decision-making. “The MME is receiving signals of demand for transmission infrastructure to connect plants for hydrogen production and consumption on a gigawatt scale. Therefore, it is important to share this challenging moment with associations and agents in the sector to understand the planner's dilemmas and the choices to be made in the transmission planning study to be prepared by EPE”, highlighted Barral.
