EDP Transmissão Aliança SC, a company formed by EDP Brasil and Celesc, received from the Santa Catarina Environmental Institute (IMA) the Installation License (IL) to start the last stage of the Lot 21 construction work, between the municipalities of Abdon Batista, Campos Novos and Siderópolis and Forquilhinha. Budgeted at R$ 1.3 billion, the project includes 433 kilometers of transmission lines, the Siderópolis II substation and 991 towers along the route. It is expected that, at the peak of the works, the stretch that has just been licensed will absorb approximately 820 workers, which will be allocated among the four planned sites.

In the next five months, the work will include the mobilization of personnel, installation of sites, access openings or improvements in existing ones, lease of structures, cleaning of the easement strip that will receive the towers, assembly of towers, cable launching and testing and commissioning. Work on the stretch between Biguaçu and Siderópolis was already underway, following the concession of IL in March this year.

“EDP Transmissão Aliança has been working tirelessly to complete the works on Lot 21 strictly on schedule. Obtaining this new license is a vitally important step to deliver to the population of Santa Catarina a project that will contribute so much to the state's economic development,” says Luiz Otávio Henriques, chairman of EDP Transmissão Aliança.

In total, the lines that make up lot 21 cover 28 municipalities of Santa Catarina: Biguaçu, Antônio Carlos, São Pedro de Alcântara, Águas Mornas, São Bonifácio, São Martinho, Rio Fortuna, Braço do Norte, Grão Pará, São Ludgero, Orleans, Lauro Muller, Urussanga, Cocal do Sul, Siderópolis, Nova Veneza, Forquilhinha, Bom Jardim da Serra, São Joaquim, Urupema, Painel, Lages, Capão Alto, Campo Belo do Sul, Cerro Negro, Anita Garibaldi, Abdon Batista and Campos Novos.  The venture will strengthen the state's energy infrastructure, enabling Santa Catarina to expand its economic potential, attracting more industries and fostering job and income creation for the population.

In addition to the implementation of transmission lines, social and environmental mitigation and compensation actions provided in 13 programs and subprograms of the Basic Environmental Project (PBA) will be developed in the state.

Lot 18 IL

EDP also received, on October 15th, through its subsidiary EDP Transmission SP-MG, the Installation License for the construction of Lot 18, which includes 375 kilometers of lines and two substations that cross 29 municipalities between the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais. With an investment of R$ 1.3 billion, the construction of lot 18 should generate 3,500 jobs at the peak of its works.

About EDP Transmissão Aliança SC

EDP Transmissão Aliança SC is a public utility concessionaire established in 2017 through a special purpose company formed by two companies already consolidated in the Brazilian electricity sector, EDP Brasil and Celesc Geração. The Company purchased lot 21 of the Public Electric Power Transmission Service Auction No. 05/16, held by the National Agency of Electrical Energy (ANEEL) in April 2017.

About EDP in Brazil

With over 20 years of experience, EDP Brasil is one of the largest private companies in the electricity sector operating throughout the value chain. The Company, which has over 10,000 direct and outsourced employees, operates in Transmission, Trading and Energy Solutions and has six hydroelectric generation units and one thermal power station. On Distribution, it serves around 3.4 million customers in São Paulo and Espírito Santo. Recently, it became Celesc's main shareholder in Santa Catarina. In Brazil, it is a reference in areas such as Innovation, Governance and Sustainability, having been in the B3´s Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) for 13 consecutive years.