OFFSHORE WIND IN BRAZIL: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Back to the City and Pinners Hall for another session involving global finance and the burgeoning offshore wind a d hydrogen sectors
As the Brazilian Offshore Wind market opens up, join us for this in-person discussion of the opportunities and challenges faced by investors, developers, supply chain and industry in general keen on realising this potential 700GW market.
Not all Banks are the same as I quickly discovered at the venue, signficantly, the London HQ of the Banca Da Brasil complete with its indoor waterfall and tropical vegitatio which made a lovely back drop to the day’s proceedings
Invited speakers and panellists included ABEEólica, SHELL, Porto do Açu, DLA Piper, DIT, and UK Export Finance. Significantly the venue was the Old Broad St London HQ of Banco do Brasil, who showed the depth of their commitment in also providing a speaker
As with Namibia in Paris last month, the dynamism emanating from the countries Embassy was also in evidence
Brazil has been int he news for all the wrong reasons and its refreshing that my own sectors can help revive a somewhat tarnished reputation. The SEC conference back in February proving something of precursor to today’s session:
· Fabio Machado – General Manager at Banco do Brasil indicated support and encouragemet from the hosts
Opening remarks
· Marco Longhi, MP - Trade Envoy to Brazil
· Anjoum Noorani - British Consul-General, Rio de Janeiro
Presentation by ABEEólica - Brazilian Wind Energy Association
· Speaker: Elbia Gannoum - Chief Executive Officer at ABEEólica
Presentation by Shell
· Lukas Fleming - Head of UK Onshore Renewable Generation
Presentation by Mauro Andrade, Business Development Executive Director at Prumo Group.
All pieces of the jigsaw are coming togethers as major projects are derisked at the earlies stage and offtakers and finance brought into the fold as we saw down the street at last Autumn’s City event
Presentation by DLA Piper
· Marcelo Frazão - Partner and Co-Head of the Energy and Natural Resources Practice of DLA Piper
· Bruce Chen - Of Counsel at DLA Piper Panel Discussion moderated by Ieda Gomes, Non-Executive Board Director - Energy, Infrastructure, Construction and Utilities and Councillor at the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce
Panellists:
· Elbia Gannoum, Chief Executive Officer at ABEEólica
· Albert Clarke, Head of Offshore Wind at DIT
· Richard Simon-Lewis,, Director & Head of Business Development, Marketing & Communications at UKEF
Thanks for the invite Daniella Carneiro, the proactive and engaging Head of the Energy and Decarbonisation Committee of the Brazilian Chamber there is much more to come in the offshore wind and hydrogen sector for Brazil
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