Brazil Has A Unique Opportunity To Reindustrialize With Clean Energy

Written by Paulo Nogueira

Published on 25/08/2023 at 14:47

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Brazil Has Unique Opportunity to Attract Industries and Reindustrialize with Clean Energy

Brazil has the ‘opportunity of the century’ to reindustrialize through clean energy, according to Lucas Araripe, executive director of Casa dos Ventos.

The company sees the potential to attract energy-intensive industries such as aluminum, steel, fertilizers, and data centers to the country, due to these companies’ need to meet decarbonization targets.

Currently, more than 80% of Brazil’s energy matrix comes from renewable sources, such as solar power plants and wind farms.

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Transaction with TotalEnergies

Casa dos Ventos closed a joint venture valued at R$ 12.6 billion with TotalEnergies last year.

The transaction does not include the joint development of offshore wind energy projects, which, according to the executive director, does not make economic sense for Brazilian companies at the moment.

Gains and Future Plans

Casa dos Ventos sees significant gains following the transaction, including reduced costs with guarantees and spreads, in addition to accessing TotalEnergies’ client portfolio to seek new energy generation projects.

The company plans to advance into the production of ‘green’ fuels, such as methanol and hydrogen, which require a large amount of clean energy.

Casa dos Ventos reported revenue of R$ 358.1 million in 2022, a growth of 7.6% compared to the previous year.

Brazil Has A Unique Opportunity To Reindustrialize With Clean Energy

Brazil Has Unique Opportunity to Attract Industries and Reindustrialize with Clean Energy

Transaction with TotalEnergies

Gains and Future Plans

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Brazil Has A Unique Opportunity To Reindustrialize With Clean Energy

Brazil Has Unique Opportunity to Attract Industries and Reindustrialize with Clean Energy

Transaction with TotalEnergies

Gains and Future Plans

Mother and daughter build a 70 m² house with more than 8,000 discarded glass bottles and impress with their creativity; known as the Casa de Sal, the property is located on Itamaracá Island, in Pernambuco.

The river that “dies” in the desert never reaches the sea and yet gives life to one of Africa’s largest natural refuges in a truly impressive way.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

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China took 46 years to surround its largest desert with a 3,000-kilometer green belt, but the megaproject against sandstorms still faces drought, low tree survival, and advancing desertification in the Taklamakan.

Tilapia giant puts R$ 12 million on the table, inaugurates mega factory in Brazil, and will process up to 20 tons of fish per day, creating jobs and strengthening family farming.

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