Our Passions: The Atmosphere, Wind Energy and our Clients’ Success.

Odilon Camargo started his career in 1976 by developing software for wind turbine blade aerodynamic optimization and design. He was in the 4th year of the Aeronautical Engineering program, at the prestigious Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA).

In 1980, Camargo worked at DLR-Stuttgart, where he designed the rotor blade for the DEBRA 25 wind turbine as the fruit of a joint German-Brazilian project. The turbine featured a 25-meter rotor diameter and a nominal power of 100 kW.

In 1986, when the German wind energy market effectively took off, the DEBRA project was transferred to the company Köster Maschinenfabrik, where it was renamed ADLER 25 and became one of the first wind turbines in Germany’s ground-breaking wind market.

In 1987, back in Brazil, Camargo carried out the first wind resource assessment for the Brazilian Northeast, for CHESF. This work revealed the exceptional wind potential that is well known today in Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and central Bahia.

In 1991, Camargo and Ekkehard Schubert, his former gliding instructor, founded CAMARGO-SCHUBERT Wind Engineering. Both aeronautical engineers shared a passion for the practical knowledge of physical movements of the athmosphere caused by thermal effects, orography, thermal stability, and mesoscale influences. Schubert is a ten-time Brazilian Gliding Champion and, for many decades, served as manager and industrial director at the aircraft manufacturer EMBRAER.

Since 1987, Camargo has traversed more than 60,000 km across Brazil, from southernmost regions bordering Uruguay to Roraima in the North, scouting for locations for wind projects and guiding the installation of meteorological masts to collect wind data and select the best areas for these projects.

Starting in the 2000s, with the arrival of Proinfa, Camargo started a gradual expansion in the company's team to serve the growing market, which was additionally and later driven by the "Alternative Energy" and “Reserve Energy” auctions, in the mid-2010s. Furthermore, in response to policies from various Brazilian states aimed at promoting renewable energy, deepening the mapping efforts of the national territory became necessary. Today, the established team relies on specialists from multiple engineering fields and meteorology, integrating various disciplines. This diverse team has enabled the expansion of services into solar energy, initially by undertaking regional mapping and hybrid solar-wind project evaluations. Currently, the company offers services that equally address the needs of both the wind and solar markets.

CAMARGO SCHUBERT has provided consultancy for more than 53% of the Brazilian wind market, considering the certified yield in MW, pertaining to main investors and wind farm developers.

Brazil’s most promising wind resources are located in complex terrains where contrasting thermal influences between day and night impact atmospheric stability. To address these unique conditions, we have performed studies by integrating data from multiple second-generation LIDARs.

Our proprietary wind farm software has been designed to improve accounting for site-specific details. By comparing our energy predictions, we have assumed industry-leading alignment between predicted and actual energy yields across more than 6 GW of wind farms.

In Brazil’s exceptionally competitive energy auction market - one of the most rigorous worldwide - Camargo-Schubert has emerged as a foremost consultancy, responsible for the majority of over 19 GW auctioned in wind energy since 2009. The stringent technical standards demanded by these auctions make precision in energy predictions essential, and Camargo-Schubert’s approach has consistently provided the reliable, high-quality data needed for successful financial modeling.

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