Norway headquartered Equinor and its subsidiary Rio Energy started commercial power production at the Serra da Babilônia Solar facility in Brazil. The site sits next to the existing 223 MW wind complex and created Equinor’s first hybrid asset with 140 MW of solar capacity. The shared setup used the same infrastructure to simplify operations, lower costs and smooth power output by combining solar and wind resources. Annual output was estimated at 236 GWh, supplied to the Brazilian power market by Danske Commodities. With this addition, Equinor reached about 600 MW of solar and wind capacity in commercial operation, including stakes in the Apodi and Mendubim solar complexes operated by Scatec. Rio Energy, acquired in 2023, continued to mature a 1.5 GW pipeline of onshore wind and solar projects to expand Equinor’s power portfolio in Brazil. Earlier this year, Equinor and BeGreen started a 65 MW PV project in Denmark, adding to the company’s expanding portfolio.