A Ambev, associated with CEBDS, announced an agreement with a private equity group to build a wind farm that will supply all of its factories in the Northeast region, as well as the five Budweiser brand breweries in Brazil. Ambev will pay 600 million reais over a period of 15 years to Casaforte Investimentos, which in turn will build a 1,600-hectare wind farm with a capacity of over 80 megawatts in Bahia.
“With this energy purchase agreement, 20,000 tons of carbon dioxide will no longer be emitted per year, the equivalent of taking 35,000 cars off the streets per year,” said Ambev’s vice president of sustainability and supplies, Rodrigo Figueiredo, in an interview with Reuters.
