THE Axia Energynew name of Electroarmbegan work on two transmission lines with a total length of 1,450 kilometers and an investment of 3.6 billion reais. The lines correspond to lots 3 and 5 of the transmission auction organized in 2024 by the National Electric Energy Agency (Anéel).
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The third batch is 340 kilometers long with a voltage of 500 kilovolts (kV) and 230 kV, with an expected investment of around 1 billion reais. Axia expects the line, located in Ceará, to be completed by June 2029 and will generate 1,500 direct jobs.
Lot 5 corresponds to a transmission line 1.12 thousand kilometers long, with investments of R$2.6 billion. The line will cross the States of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia and Piauí, at a voltage of 500 kV.
According to Axia, the work is expected to be completed in December 2029 and is expected to generate around 5,000 direct jobs.
The projects will create new structuring corridors, considered essential for the flow of renewable energy in the Northeast, according to the company. It is estimated that 6,500 direct jobs will be created in the region.
“These lines are essential to guarantee greater security to the National Interconnected System and will strengthen the flow of renewable energy produced in the Northeast, in addition to generating thousands of direct jobs and stimulating the development of new businesses in the region,” said Axia Energia vice president of expansion engineering, Robson Campos, in a statement.
Axia Energia has accumulated investments of 17.4 billion reais since June 2022, when Eletrobras was privatized. Of this total, BRL 12.2 billion, or 70% of resources, were devoted to strengthening and improving large and medium-sized structures. Initiatives that have benefited from resources include the replacement of equipment that is at the end of its useful life, obsolete or whose capacity has been exceeded due to growth in energy demand.
Investments in the modernization of large hydroelectric plants increased from 148 million reais, in 2022, to 653 million reais, in 2025. “We have focused our efforts on the improvement and modernization of assets over the last three years and we will continue on this path, as well as develop, when we identify an adequate return and compliance with our methodology,” Axia President Ivan Monteiro said in a statement.
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