EDP acquires Brazil solar energy business

• Portugal's EDP has authorized an arrangement with Brazil's Blue Sol Participações to acquire a minority stake of up to 40% of the latter's voting shares.

The bargain also enables EDP to gain control of Blue Sol 3 as well as a half years after the conclusion of the deal, EDP claimed Monday.

Blue Sol has actually been energetic for over 12 years in the B2C (business to customer) dispersed solar generation sector. Its company model includes franchise business and provides remedies from project layout via tools, installment as well as documental demands to enable connection with local electricity concession holders.

The firm owns a chain of 34 franchise business across 16 states, serving the entire Brazilian region, as well as has 50 MWa of installed capability. In 2020, it marketed over 17.5 MWa of power, posting a revenue of 65mn reais (US$ 12.6 mn).

In a statement, EDP claimed the major objectives of the acquisition are gaining access to the franchise chain, include capillarity to the B2C sales pressure, grow faster with a companion with technical track record, as well as produce a growth platform capable of offering consumers in different regions of the nation.

EDP included it expects the deal to be ended in the initial quarter of 2021.

Brazil is EDP's 4th biggest market, behind Portugal, Spain as well as North America. The business got to Ebitda of 2.63 bn euros (US$ 2.81 bn) in the first 9 months of 2020.

Its sustainable portfolio in Brazil incorporates 1.9 GW of mounted capability, 83% of which is hydro and 17% onshore wind power acquisition contract (PPA) got. Furthermore, EDP owns equity stakes in hydro plants, representing an attributable capability of 551MW.

Over the last few years, the business has actually bought PV solar energy distributed generation in Brazil, consisting of a 5MWa plant for Banco do Brasil as well as an 8.33 MWa endeavor for shopping mall firm Multiplan, in Minas Gerais state.

In January, the company safeguarded a 19-year exclusive PPA for the 66MW Lagoa solar power plant, in Paraíba state, which is scheduled to begin operations in 2022.

EDP is also looking at the regional electrical wheelchair market, with its initial commercial project in the sector including the supply of personalized battery chargers for electrical automobiles rented out by Unidas.

"Even though electric cars are still costly for people, this market already makes economic feeling for business, the B2B market," EDP vice president of method and organization growth, Carlos Andrade, informed BNamericas in a meeting in October.

Furthermore, EDP is creating projects to deploy electrical automobile charging stations in São Paulo as well as Espírito Santo states, while collaborating with financiers and bus producers to include over 3,000 electric buses in 4 Latin American countries, consisting of Brazil.