1. Brookfield Renewable Energy Group
Focusing on Renewable Power Generation
HYDROPOWER
A TOOL FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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renewed, the risk that a portion of Brookfield Renewable’s hydroelectric portfolio is subject to re-contracting and may become subject to price risk, the risk that
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3. Brookfield Renewable Energy Group
Canada
• 32 hydropower stations
• 1 thermal station
• 3 wind farms
• 1 hydro station under construction
• 560 km of 44k to 230kV
United States
• 103 hydropower stations
• 1 thermal station Colombia
• 4 wind farms
• Distribution utility serving 350,000
customers
• 39 km operating HVDC submarine
cable;
• 600 km of 345kV under construction
Chile
• 8,800 km serving 98% of the
population Brazil
Generation • 36 hydropower stations
• 2 hydro stations under construction
Transmission/Distribution
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4. Brookfield Renewable Energy Group - BRAZIL
Hydroelectric Power Plant Locations
~ 300 employees
Brookfield one of the largest privately owned small
hydroelectric energy producers in Brazil
36 power generating facilities in operation (626 MW)
First hydro electric generator to commercialize
carbon credit certificates in Brazil Mato Grosso
Goiás Minas Gerais
Focused on low social and environmental impact
Mato Grosso do Sul
Rio de Janeiro
assets
Paraná
~325 MW in greenfield projects in the pipeline Santa Catarina
Rio Grande do Sul
Head offices
Operating plants
SHPP Anna Maria, Minas Gerais SHPP Guary, Minas Gerais
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5. Poverty, sustainability and energy – developing hydropower – developing the country
BRAZIL –
FIGHTING POVERTY IS THE PATH TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• The worst enemy of the nature is misery, and you can eliminate poverty only with sustainable social
and economic growth
• Hydropower with strong commitment for its sustainable construction and operation is a powerful tool
for economic and social development
• Hydropower is responsible for 85% of all renewable energy sources around the world
• Brazil is gifted with huge hydrographic basins and has a enormous hydropower potential estimated in
260 GW
• So Brazil has chosen its path to fight poverty and reach a sustainable social and economic
development, and the power behind it is clearly for us Brazilians Hydropower
• Today in Brazil from the 115 GW of installed capacity, 88GW are hydropower which represents more
than 70% of renewable in our electric matrix (one of the cleanest in the world)
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6. Poverty, sustainability and energy – developing hydropower – developing the country
BRAZIL –
FIGHTING POVERTY IS THE PATH TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Brazil is developing big hydropower projects in the north region showing the world a new approach to
work, minimizing the impacts and maximizing the benefits to the local communities
• Regarding small hydropower there is a remaining potential of approximately 18 thousand MW to be
developed
• Brazilian industry has reach a mature situation regarding Hydropower having achieved conditions of
financing, services and equipment supply and energy market already well consolidated
• An opportunity like building a power plant can and must be used by the country as a tool for
local/regional development, bringing economical and social advantages for the local population in the
way to the real sustainable development of remote regions
• Companies that want to build and operate a power plant have to use a high degree of social and
environmental responsibility as a strategy for implementation and operation of the projects
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7. Traditional Triple Bottom Line Analysis
Economic
Social Environmental
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8. Traditional Triple Bottom Line Analysis X Multiple Bottom Line Analysis
ECONOMIC BOTTOM LINE CRITERIA
• Payback (typically months or years)
• Benefit / Cost ratio (BCR)
• Net present Value (NPV)
• Rate of Return (RoR)
• Cash Flow
ENVIRONMENTAL BOTTOM LINE CRITERIA
• Watershed-wide issues and impacts
• Project area issues and impacts
• Specific fauna and flora species issues (threatened or endangered)
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9. Traditional Triple Bottom Line Analysis X Multiple Bottom Line Analysis
SOCIAL BOTTOM LINE CRITERIA
• Reliable Electricity
• Water Issues – Water Supply, Flood Control, Transportation, Irrigation
• Aboriginal (First Nations) Issues
• Sports & Recreation Issues – Fishing, Boating, Swimming
• Employment – local human resources
• Social and economic development
POSSIBLE BOTTOM LINE CRITERIA IN A MULTIPLE ANALYSIS
• Regulatory
• Dam Safety
• Sustainability
• Other major criteria appropriate to project owner / stakeholders / public
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10. Traditional Triple Bottom Line Analysis X Multiple Bottom Line Analysis
Regulatory ?
Economic Dam Safety ?
Other Public ?
Social Environmental
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11. Traditional Triple Bottom Line Analysis X Multiple Bottom Line Analysis
Regulatory ?
Economic Dam Safety ?
Other Public ?
Sustainability
Social Environmental
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12. Multiple Bottom Line Analysis
MULTIPLE BOTTOM LINE CRITERIA
TOOL
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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13. Multiple Bottom Line/Regional Development Approach – Advantages
COMPETITION AMONG DEVELOPERS FOR THE BEST SITES
• The discussions with the main stakeholders (mainly local communities, first nations, rural workers and
land owners) set the stage for the need of a multiple bottom line/regional development approach in
the development of hydropower plants in the country
• In these discussions a Company want to have the stakeholders as partners playing in the same
side, once in the public hearings it can make the difference if company will implement the project
• The Governmental Agencies/Environmental Authorities (filled with NGO people) tend to speed the
licensing process to companies that are used to work with some kind of multiple bottom line /regional
development approach in the development of hydropower plants
FINANCING THE PROJECTS
• Companies that use a multiple bottom line/regional development approach, and for that can be
considered “transparent” or “sustainable” or “green” have access to better interest rates and grace
periods in the project financing
• Multilateral agencies and Local Development Banks offer not only better financing conditions but also
a fast track lane analysis process (that is the case of Brazilian BNDES – National Bank for Economic and
Social Development), also financing with special conditions the voluntary local development projects
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14. Brookfield and BNDES – financing development projects
• Brookfield as many others private investors in the energy sector in Brazil
finances the construction of its power plants trough the BNDES – Brazilian
National Bank for Social and Economical Development, a Federal Government
Institution aimed to finance the development of the country
• Since 2008, BNDES has been approaching several borrowers trying to create a
partnership where in exchange of better financing conditions (smaller interest
rates, better grace periods and fast track in the loan analysis and approval), the
private investor would take a social loan to invest in social projects for the
communities
• These social projects financing would have a special interest rate, and the
money had to be used in social responsibility actions (voluntary actions not
linked with the impacts of the project)
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15. Brookfield Brazil – Barra do Brauna HPP
• Barra do Braúna Hydroelectric Power Plant (49 MW) was the first one to use
this social financing
• From the total project finance (R$ 220 MI) Brookfield took 1% (R$ 2,2 MI) to
implement social projects
• As indicated by BNDES the projects should be located preferentially in the
region close to the power plant, but it was not mandatory
• 4 social projects were implemented, 3 in the southeast region (close to the
power plant) and 1 in the south region
Recreio’s town Waste and Residues Recycling Plant
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16. Brookfield Brazil – Barra do Brauna HPP
Pomba River Valley Environmental Education Center
Laranjal’s town Community and Citizens Center
Dois Lajeados Municipal Hospital Geriatric Hall
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17. Brookfield Brazil – Pezzi and Serra dos Cavalinhos II HPP
• With the success of the Barra do Braúna case BNDES invited Brookfield to
replicate the process in the financing of a small hydro plant in the Brazilian
southern region
• So Serra dos Cavalinhos II (29 MW) was the second case where social projects
were supported by BNDES
• From the total project finance (R$ 162 MI) Brookfield took 1% (R$ 1,6 MI) to
implement social projects
• 3 projects were selected and will be implemented during 2012 and 2013
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18. Brookfield Brazil – Pezzi and Serra dos Cavalinhos II HPP
Volley ball Scholl for low income families' children
Agro forestry system producing organic food
Sustainability project for a small farmers union
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19. Lessons learned: developing hydropower – developing the communities
• Companies showing its will to be a partner of the local community during the
environmental licensing process trough the early discussion and development
of actions that will lead to local/regional development
• Companies strongly believes that starting the process in partnership with the
local people will enhance the chances of success of a project
COMMUNITIES LOOKING
FORWARD TO HAVE THESE
INVESTMENTS IN ITS REGION
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20. Final Remarks – Conclusions
FINAL REMARKS
• Hydropower is the energy behind Brazilian social and economic
development
• The importance of a commitment to the development of sustainable
hydropower in a country like Brazil
• Private investment in development, construction and operation of
Hydro Power Plants is one of the pillars of this commitment
• Using the development, construction and operation of Hydro Power
Plants as tool for regional development is fundamental to achieve this
commitment
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21. Final Remarks – Conclusions
CONCLUSION
FOR A DEVELOPING COUNTRY SUCH AS BRAZIL, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A
HYDROPOWER PLANT IS NOT JUST A CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW POWER
SOURCE (THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT AND NEEDED) BUT MORE THAN THAT IS A
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT TO
REMOTE REGIONS OTHERWISE OFTEN FORGOTTEN BY GOVERNMENTS AND
POLITICS. THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS WITH THE COMPANIES AND
PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THIS FIELD ARE LEARNING HOW TO DEAL WITH
THIS SITUATION BEING ALL PART OF THE PROCESS FOR THE SAKE OF THE
PROJECT, THE ENVIRONMENT , THE COUNTRY AND THEIR OWN.
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22. THANK YOU
Antonio Fonseca dos Santos
Environment Land and Social Responsibility Director
Brookfield Renewable Energy Group – Brazil
antonio.fonseca@brookfieldenergia.com
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Notes de l'éditeur
I may make some forward-looking statements in today’s presentation and would ask you to bear in mind the various risk factors which you can find more clearly laid out in our regulatory filings.
180 power facilities1,200 employees in 3 countries10 markets in North and South America2,000 MW in development pipelineFacilities on 68 river systems5,800 miles of transmission under management or in construction