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Posted on March 2, 2026
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Add as preferred source on GoogleHuawei will supply Aggreko with battery storage systems for what’s expected to be Brazil’s largest-ever microgrid-based energy storage project in Amazonas, costing about R$850 million (US $165.5 million), with initial operations anticipated in 2027–28.
By Leticia Fucuchima
SAO PAULO, March 2 (Reuters) - China's Huawei will sell batteries to British business Aggreko for a renewable energy project in Brazil's Amazon region, in what is expected to become the country's largest-ever energy storage system, the two companies told Reuters.
Huawei's batteries will run alongside solar plants set up in microgrids across Brazil's Amazonas state, in order to diversify Aggreko's power supply in the region away from polluting thermal plants.
Aggreko's project will cost about 850 million reais ($165.55 million) and take up to three years for full implementation, with the first plants coming online between 2027 and 2028, said Cristiano Lopes Saito, Aggreko's director for sales to the utilities sector in Brazil.
"It's an extremely disruptive project, the largest microgrid project currently in the Americas," Barbara Pizzolato, off-grid director at Huawei in Brazil told Reuters.
While the thermal plants will remain operational to guarantee supply, the project should allow for lower carbon emissions, the companies said.
They forecast that the microgrids will supply energy to communities in 24 locations in Amazonas state, including in large cities such as Tefe, home to about 75,000 people.
The project is a boost to Huawei, as the Chinese manufacturer seeks to expand operations in Brazil amid expectations of an upcoming first-ever government auction for batteries.
Brazil is just starting to adopt battery energy storage systems and has only one large-scale project of this type, by the transmission company ISA Energia on the coast of Sao Paulo state.
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(Reporting by Leticia Fucuchima; Editing by Nia Williams)
China's Huawei and the UK's Aggreko are collaborating to develop the largest-ever energy storage system in Brazil's Amazon region.
The project will use Huawei batteries alongside solar plants in microgrids to diversify power supply away from thermal plants.
The project will cost around 850 million reais ($165.55 million) and is expected to be fully implemented within three years, with the first plants online between 2027 and 2028.
The project aims to reduce carbon emissions by replacing polluting thermal plants with cleaner microgrid solutions.
The microgrids will supply energy to 24 locations in Amazonas state, including cities such as Tefe.
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