GE Vernova Secures 15-Year O&M Contract for Brazil's Azulão I Power Plant

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On August 19, Brazil's Azulão I natural gas power plant entered commercial operation, with GE Vernova supplying the project with a 7HA.02-class H-class gas turbine and an H65 generator, and will undertake long-term maintenance under a 15-year service agreement. The plant has an installed capacity of 361 MW, of which 295 MW is contracted firm dispatchable capacity.

Brazil's National Electric Energy Agency approved the plant's commercial operation effective August 4 through Resolution No. 2899. The project is owned by Azulão I Geração de Energia, a subsidiary of Eneva, and uses natural gas produced from the Azulão field in the Amazon Basin, generating power at the gas source location and connecting to Brazil's National Interconnected System.

Azulão I adopts Eneva's "gas field to power" development model and is the first power asset to enter operation under the Azulão 950 integrated project. Under the results of the 2021 capacity reserve auction, its 295 MW of capacity entered a 15-year supply period starting August 5, corresponding to an annual fixed revenue of R$ 278.3 million, with the price benchmark set for December 2025 and adjusted by Brazil's Broad Consumer Price Index.

To connect to the approximately 1,850 km Tucuruí–Macapá–Manaus transmission corridor, Eneva and GE Vernova equipped the plant with subsynchronous resonance blocking filters and torsional stress relays to monitor and control potential torsional vibration risks between the transmission system and the turbine-generator shaft train.

The Azulão integrated project also includes the Azulão II plant with a planned installed capacity of approximately 590 MW. The project adopts a combined-cycle gas turbine configuration and is scheduled to enter commercial operation in July 2027; the combined installed capacity of the two plants is expected to reach approximately 950 MW.