edp announcement

EDPR secures a PPA for a new solar project in Brazil

Monday, 13 January 2020

Madrid, January 13th 2020: EDP Renováveis, S.A. (“EDPR”), through its subsidiary EDP Renováveis Brasil, S.A. (“EDPR Brasil”), secured a 19-year private Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) to sell the energy to be produced by Lagoa solar power plant. Lagoa solar power plant, located in the Brazilian State of Paraíba, has a total capacity of 66 MW and start of operations expected for 2022.

With this new contract EDPR reinforces its presence in a market with a low risk profile, through the establishment of long term contracts, attractive renewable resources and solid prospects in the medium and long-term.

This new solar project increases EDPR’s portfolio technological diversification on which solar capacity total build-out is expected to reach 1.3 GW by 2022, after this new arrangement, EDPR has now secured 5.3 GW of the ~7.0 GW targeted global capacity build-out for 2019-2022 period, as part of its Strategic update announced in March 12th 2019.



EDP Renováveis, S.A.