Joint venture Golar Power has been given the go-ahead to begin commercial operations at its new 1.5GW Porto de Sergipe I power plant project in Brazil.

The Golar LNG arm, which is a joint venture with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, received its commercial operations certificate from Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency ANEEL on 21 March.

Golar LNG, which last week detailed its second LNG import project for Brazil, said the beginning of operations at the plant also triggered the start of bareboat charter...