Pahlavan

Two of the three projects that shared Brazil's entire 228 MW allocation on 6 and 7 October 2026 belonged to Pahlavan. The grid operator had offered that capacity at four São Paulo connection points, and seven qualified bidders wanted 451 MW between them.

Pahlavan fought a court case the same week. Its three Paulínia schemes had collected every permit the old access regime required: ministry ordinances, ANEEL authorisations, access opinions and signed transmission-use contracts. Under them each project would have grown from 71 MW to 157 MW of grid use in 2029, until the grid operator ruled that 86 MW rise unviable under the new policy. On 6 October a judge at the Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região told ANEEL to decide Pahlavan's injunction requests within 48 hours and barred new awards at the Replan substation meanwhile. The order, the judge stressed, conferred no priority and set aside no capacity. ANEEL had published nothing by 17 October.

At stake is whether rights acquired under the old regime survive Brazil's switch to contested access. ANEEL had cleared Scala Data Centers' AI City campus to connect at 120 MW in September.