GPG Brazil, together with the Municipal Education Secretariat of Guimarânia and in partnership with the collaborating company Dossel of the photovoltaic plants Guimarânia I and II.

More than 250 community members participate in the event and receive basic social and health facilities in their communities.

On 6 May, the Hospital Maternidade Municipal Mãe Elisa inaugurated a new intensive care unit with all the necessary facilities to treat patients with severe COVID-19 (mechanical ventilators, defibrillators, monitors, etc.).

GPG continues supporting a full scholarship programme to facilitate access to higher education for young people with limited financial resources in indigenous quilombola communities in the region of São João do Piauí (Brazil), where our photovoltaic power plant Sobral I operates.

GPG lanza un completo programa de becas para facilitar el acceso a estudios de nivel superior a jóvenes con recursos económicos limitados de las comunidades indígenas quilombolas de la región de São João do Piauí (Brasil), donde opera nuestra planta fotovoltaica Sobral I.

GPG, the international electricity generation subsidiary of Naturgy, has issued infrastructure debentures to refinance two solar photovoltaic power generation plants in Brazil.

Soltec, the Spanish leader in the manufacture and supply of single-axis solar trackers, will supply its tracking equipment to two of our solar photovoltaic energy plants in the State of Minas Gerais in south-west Brazil.

Savanna is the latest solar power generation project by Global Power Generation in Brazil, confirming its commitment to this technology following the entry into commercial operation of the Sobral and Sertão projects last year. Acquisition of the project was completed on 6 April, following approval by the competent regulator in Brazil. Construction work began ten days later, and should conclude by the end of the year. Commercial operation by the Savanna plant is expected to begin at the end of the year.

Global Power Generation will invest approximately 95 million euros in developing what will be its second electricity generation project in the country, having successfully implemented the Sobral and Sertao projects, brought into operation in 2017. It is estimated that the project will produce 165 GWh annually.

The first photovoltaic generation project developed by Global Power Generation (GPG) was brought into commercial operation in September in Brazil. It consists of two solar energy plants of 34.74 MWp each, located in the northern state of Piauí in Brazil. Approximately 85 million euros was invested into Sobral I and Sertao I, which were built in a record time of 8 months.