Brazil invests just 2.5% of its GDP in infrastructure projects and must double this amount by 2018 to overcome all of the shortfalls in this sector¹, which comprises the sanitation, energy and logistics segments.
To meet the sector‘s needs and ensure the sustainability of its investments, INFRA actively manages and constantly monitors the projects of its investee companies.
¹Source: Estado de S.Paulo
INFRA explores opportunities in Brazil‘s power generation industry through the private-equity fund Energia PCH FIP. With solid projects for the sector, the private-equity fund participates in projects from the identification and conception stage to final development, and has a portfolio of small and large power plants in various different stages of development and a permanent concern for minimizing environmental impacts.
Its projects include Small Hydroelectric Plants (SHPs), which require lower investment in construction than conventional hydroelectric plants, inundate smaller areas and cause lower environmental impacts. In addition, the possibility of building plants on smaller rivers decentralizes the country‘s power generation, thereby reducing losses during the transmission of power until reaching consumer centers.
INFRA also invests in a coal-fired thermal power plant project, which will use the waste from the region‘s coalmines to generate power, reducing the region‘s current environmental liability.
