Brazilian power companies traded 18.2bn reais (US$9.7bn) in contracts and guaranteed supply to the regulated market in 2011 at the September 17 government-organized power auction, power trading board CCEE said in a statement.
Thirty distribution companies bought 142TWh at the auction for an average price of 128 reais per MWh from eight fuel oil-fired generation projects and two LNG-fired projects.
The final price was 14.4% below the 150 reais/MWh ceiling set for the auction. The 10 projects had a combined installed capacity of 1.7GW.
"LNG has finally started to enter the energy matrix," CCEE president Antônio Carlos Fraga Machado said.
The 10 projects represented 15% of the 64 projects that registered for the auction. Most thermo and four wind projects preliminarily listed declined to sell power.
The auction lasted almost 11 hours.
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