Eldorado Brazil changes project and Três Lagoas will acquire a thermoelectric power plant – Economy



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Eldorado Brasil modified its initial project and will install in Três Lagoas, 338 km from Campo Grande, a thermoelectric power station using eucalyptus biombad. The structure, which is expected to receive an investment of 320 million rand, will now be erected in the area where the pulp mill operates. Previously, it was designed to operate in Selvíria, 70 km from the new site.

The characteristics of the project remain however the same, as JP News pointed out: an investment of 320 million R $ for the construction of the thermoelectric plant of Onça When the factory will be ready, it will have the ability to produce 50 megawatts of electricity.

The environmental license for the Selvíria plant was issued at the beginning of the year. The unit is expected to start operating in 2021 and will be the first to produce electricity from the state's eucalyptus biombad – a similar unit was announced for Aparecida do Taboado .

The plant will produce energy from debris. such as leaves, roots, bark and other wood by-products that are not used in the manufacture of pulp. It is expected that a thousand jobs will be generated. This will be the second thermoelectric plant in Três Lagoas, where Petrobras has built a natural gas unit (inaugurated in 2013, the Luiz Carlos Prestes power station has a capacity of 386 MW).

In addition to the thermal power plant, Eldorado was also authorized to The new plant, already planned in the project, was not built on schedule and a new document is needed for its establishment.

Eldorado Brasil belonged to J & F Investimentos, the parent company of the JBS group – suspicions of involvement of members of its management in the Lava Jato operation, sold in 2017 to the Dutch group Paper Excellence.