Cotesa Engenharia in negotiations for expansion with international partners

BNAmericas, a company that analyzes industrial sectors in Latin America, highlighted in a report the advanced negotiations of Cotesa Engenharia with partner companies in the Americas and Europe to expand the international portfolio in the segment of generation and transmission systems, mainly involving wind turbine maintenance activities .

“We have already carried out production dispatch of wind and solar parks, and remote control and dispatch to more than 160 large substations in Brazil. We have a technical structure installed in the country and it is possible to join forces and add value for international investors to integrate and exchange this knowledge”, said the company's president, João Junklaus, to BNamericas.

Check the link for the full report on the BNAMericas website.

In Brazil, Cotesa Engenharia operates in 21 states and the Federal District and is responsible for the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of 2.7 GW of solar and wind generation assets, 490 MW of hydroelectric generation and 7,000 km of transmission lines high and extra-high voltage.

“Our goal is to apply more engineering to asset management, focusing on organizing technical processes and procedures, systematizing failure analysis and root cause analysis of problems in systems and equipment, and monitoring performance in transmission systems,” said Junklaus .

Cotesa is also eyeing Africa, where it is competing in an international tender, together with regional partners, to provide O&M consulting engineering services for transmission assets in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The project is financed by the World Bank to promote development in the region.

The system comprises 11 substations, 1,500km of 225kV transmission lines and control of two operations centers. The project foresees the generation of 116 direct local jobs in its first operational cycle, with an estimated investment of R$ 250 million over the four years of activity.

According to Felipe Andreas, advisor to the CEO for the development of new businesses, the project focuses on three important vectors aligned with the company's objectives.

“We are going to provide engineering, participate in regional development and leave a relevant legacy for these regions served, because according to the rules of the public notice, at the end of four years of the project in progress, there will be a technology transfer to the local operations companies”, explains Andreas.

The transfer includes the standardization of processes, creation of key performance indicators (KPI), control of O&M routines and training of local technical teams, in addition to the systemic development of operational, fiscal and financial controls of the assets.