Colorado-Based Power Company to Build Two Hydroelectric Power Stations in Brazil

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Econergy International (Denver, Colorado) was selected to provide 39.8 megawatts of hydroelectric power to Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais (CEMIG) (Belo Horizon, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Econergy was formed in 1984 and develops clean (renewable) energy power projects in Latin America.

Econergy is developing two stations about fifteen kilometers from each other in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The first station is the Areia Banca Hydro Station that will use two 9.9-megawatt (MW) Kaplan turbine/generators and will be built by a consortium lead by ENERG Power (Andares Bairro Funcionarios, Brazil) with partners EMPA (Minas Gerais, Brazil) plus Poente Engenharia (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil). Areia Banca is to start construction this month and be complete in March 2008.

The second station is Pipoca Hydro Station that will use three Francis turbine/generators to produce 20 megawatts. It will be built by the consortium lead by Orteng (Contagem, Brazil) with partners DELP Engenharia Mecanica S/A (Contagem, Brazil), Spec Engenharia (Centro Beol Horizonte, Brazil), and Quebec (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Construction of Pipoca Hydro Station is scheduled to start during March 2007 and completion is planned for December 2008.

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