Brazil’s federal programme makes $47 billion available for energy projects

• 3 months ago (2026-05-07)
• David Flin

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Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC) is supporting 474 energy-related projects, involving a total investment of $47 billion.

These include projects involving power generation and transmission, low-carbon fuels, universal access to electricity, and energy efficiency projects, These projects are in the preparatory action, tender, or execution phase.

Most of the investments ($43 billion) are private. These include:

113 power transmission projects with a total investment of $16.4 billion. The project with the highest capex ($2.3 billion) is the 1494 km transmission line Graça Aranha-Silvânia, which is being built by State Grid.

207 power generation projects with a total investment of $9.2 billion. These include the construction of the Portocém thermal power plant by New Fortress Energy and the modernisation of the Angra 1 nuclear power plant.