Shell is planning six offshore wind farms off the coast of Brazil with a combined capacity of 17GW, according to media reports.
It has filed for environmental permits with the Brazilian Institute of Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), Gabriela Oliveira, Shell’s head of renewable energy generation in Brazil told newswire Bloomberg.
The company plans to build the wind farms in waters off the north-eastern states of Piaui, Ceara and Rio Grande do Norte, the south-eastern states of Espirito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, and Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.
It expects to begin environmental studies for the projects later this year.
Shell hopes to bid in future Brazilian power auctions and aims to use electricity from the wind farms for hydrogen production, Oliveira told Bloomberg.
It is unclear how the planned 17GW capacity will be split between the six wind farms, whether the projects would use fixed-bottom foundations or floating platforms, and how much of the wind farms’ output will be earmarked for hydrogen production.
Shell aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 for all its operations and the energy it sells. It has helped to develop 873MW of operational offshore wind capacity off the coasts of the Netherlands and Norway, according to “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç Intelligence, the research and data division of “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç. It is helping to develop a further 15GW off the coasts of France, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Korea, the UK and the US.
Brazil is preparing a system for licensing seabed areas and holding competitive tenders for its nascent offshore wind sector. Prior to Shell’s announcement, developers had already requested environmental permits for more than 80GW of offshore wind capacity, according to Ibama data.
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