Brazil's next transmission line auction is scheduled for March 2009, according to Maurício Tolmasquim, president of federal energy planning company EPE.
The government offered on November 26 two transmission lines running 2,375km each to link hydro plants on the Amazon's Madeira river to São Paulo state.
"We'll auction a third 230kv line pre-Madeira," Tolmasquim told reporters in Rio de Janeiro.
"This reinforcement line is due to start operations in 2010, before the direct current lines, which are scheduled for May 2012, at around the time the Jirau and Santo Antônio hydro plants will be ready," he added.
The line will interconnect the states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia.
"It's normal to have auctions every year. We have been auctioning an average of 2,500km of transmission lines a year," said deputy mines and energy minister Márcio Zimmermann.
The government also plans to interconnect the Acre-Rondônia system through the March 2009 auction, Zimmermann added.
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