Smart Cities Brazil should leave a legacy and scenario for the generation of new businesses, millions in investments and technologies that will help the sector advance in Brazil

Renewable event took place at the Technological Park of Sorocaba, in the interior of São Paulo, last week.

The Brazilian renewable sector was very busy in the last week. Smart Cities Brasil, organized by the FRG Mídias & Eventos Group, brought together over 700 people last week at the Technological Park of Sorocaba, in the interior of São Paulo, as well as moving generations of new businesses and millions in investments.

Considered one of the largest with a renewable focus in the country, the event brought three simultaneous forums to approach important areas in growth in Brazil such as energy storage, electric mobility and also the great potential of green hydrogen.

Green hydrogen comes to the fore

During the opening lecture, Mônica Saraiva Panik, an expert at the
Brasileira do Hidrogênio (ABH2), highlighted how much green hydrogen has been growing around the world, as well as how much the expansion of knowledge and the necessary structure for the production of renewable hydrogen will be important from now on to make the clean fuel more competitive .

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“This sector has such a great value chain that it connects practically all sectors of the economy, mainly starting with the electricity sector, it connects with the market
gases, with the market for synthetic fuels and the market for biofuels.
So it starts from renewable energy, passing through the transmission of this energy, the
hydrogen production, transportation from storage to the consumer sectors of the
hydrogen, all manufacturing, transport, mainly in Brazil the steel sector and the
fertilizers, cement sector”, she explains.

Renowned institutions were also present

During Energy Storage Brasil, an energy storage forum and fair, for example, there were specialists from the Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications (CPQD), as well as from INMETRO, Itaipu Technological Park, National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES ) and the National Industrial Apprenticeship Service (SENAI).

The potential of storage was extremely addressed, as the technology will provide energy security to the electricity sector from now on, especially with regard to the production of clean energy.

Maria de Fátima Rosolem, a CPQD researcher, states that the adoption of energy storage is a path of no return and that the more the Brazil invest, the better the results going forward.

“The advantage of this technology is that there are large investments that are being
Seen, even though there are some price issues, but it is a path of no return and so I say that Brazil needs a program for the development of these new technologies, because we have to use them, we have conditions that will come with the new generations”, he reinforces.

During the fourth Move Forum – International Forum on Urban Mobility and Electric Cars, in turn, electric mobility in the daily lives of Brazilians was also very positive. The country now has more than 100 electric units in circulation according to the Brazilian Association of Electric Vehicles (ABVE) and should grow even more in the coming months.

Flávia Consoni, an expert from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) was one of the speakers at Smart Cities Brasil in 2022 and she highlighted that movements like these are essential for decarbonization.

“I think we are already doing a little bit. I put a lot of weight here on the governance aspect of this articulation between actors, especially the more direct, more incisive participation of civil society, of our industries. I think we need to show that
decarbonization, the energy transition is a necessity. We have countries that
are moving very strongly towards this, so how are we going to get there? which ones
steps are we going to take? So movements like these are very important,” she said during the event.

Organized by the FRG Mídias & Eventos Group, Smart Cities Brasil was considered a success and is already thinking of new purposes for 2023. Tiago Fraga, CEO of the FRG Group, says that the event exceeded expectations and states that the networking among the participants will bring many opportunities for the Brazilian renewable sector.

”Debating this issue in Brazil is the opportunity we have to work on the segmentation of smart cities ranging from traffic synchronization, urban electric mobility, cybersecurity, renewable energy, energy storage, hydrogen and also other pillars that will form the cities of the world. future'', says Fraga.

''The objective of the event was exactly to pass this content on to society and also to connect the companies that will take the lead in this process, creating an environment where networking was intense and where these points were connected through players, public authorities and institutional power, contributing to renewable energies'', he concludes.

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