Clean Energy: Northeast Sets Ten Records For Wind And Solar Power In July

Written by Fabio Lucas Carvalho Published on 06/08/2021 at 10:59 Updated on 06/08/2021 at 11:00

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Northeast Breaks Record for Wind and Solar Energy Generation Last Month

Brazil is one of the great global examples when it comes to renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. The energy matrix of Brazil is the cleanest among the world’s major economies. In addition to that, the country leads the South American ranking in wind power generation capacity. With this, the federal government celebrates ten records of energy production from renewable sources in the northeast, according to information released by the National Electric System Operator (ONS).

According to ONS, there were four records for average wind energy generation and four for instantaneous generation (peak), as well as two records for solar photovoltaic generation. Additionally, the government celebrated the figure recorded on July 22, when wind energy was able to supply the northeast region at 102% for 24 hours a day. On that day, the winds generated 11,399 MW.

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Bento Albuquerque, Minister of Mines and Energy, stated in a recent interview that Brazil needs to increase the supply of other clean energy sources. The government’s idea is to reduce the reliance on hydropower, which can become overloaded during dry periods.

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Clean Energy: Northeast Sets Ten Records For Wind And Solar Power In July

Northeast Breaks Record for Wind and Solar Energy Generation Last Month

Minister of Mines and Energy Highlights the Importance of Clean Energy

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Clean Energy: Northeast Sets Ten Records For Wind And Solar Power In July

Northeast Breaks Record for Wind and Solar Energy Generation Last Month

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In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

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They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.

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