Energy in a Fully Emerged Market

Brazil’s world-class energy market needs capital and ideas to transform itself to handle a “huge latent need” for power, according to Sergio Brandao, Partner and Co-Head of Energy of Rio Bravo Investimentos.

In a conversation with Privcap’s David Snow, Brandao gives an in-depth analysis of the investment landscape across Brazil’s massive energy sector. They discuss how wind has become “the most competitive form of energy,” the need to address losses in power transmission, why Brandao welcomes foreign capital and talent to Brazil’s energy sector, and what it was like to earn an engineering degree in 1985, in a very different Brazilian economic and political environment.