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The Startup Claims That Most Solar Power Plant Projects Will Come To Life This Year, Most Of Them In Minas Gerais
The capixaba startup CleanClic, a renewable energy compensation platform, integrated a R$ 110 million project for the construction of 15 shared solar power plants and a hydroelectric plant in Minas Gerais.
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In recent years, Minas Gerais has received a large part of the investments in solar energy, and this time, the startup CleanClic decided to raise a project that will include about 15 solar power plants and one more hydroelectric plant for the northern part of the state.
Facilitated Management for Access to Renewable Energy in Minas Gerais with the Startup CleanClic
The company’s new renewable energy ventures can be found in the following regions: Porteirinha, Itaobim, Muzambinho, Montes Claros, Carmo do Paranaíba, and Prudente de Morais, and involve investments from Sicoob Espírito Santo, the mining company Detronic (specialized in earthmoving, demolition, and dismantling), and Fortlev Solar (a branch of the giant Fortlev focused on the solar energy sector).
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The startup’s CEO states that this is only possible thanks to their platform, which can integrate and connect people to solar power plants, thereby accomplishing what he calls the democratization of renewable energy, an energy that is cheap, clean, and without the need for expenses on construction materials.
Minas Gerais Seeks Greater Visibility in Centralized Solar Generation
The public policies to promote solar energy adopted by the Government of Minas Gerais stand out in Brazil. The state ranks first in the ranking of photovoltaic solar energy in distributed generation, compiled by the Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Energy (ABSOLAR), with a total installed capacity of 562.5 MW.
One of Minas’ actions to advance solar energy as a whole is the streamlining of the environmental licensing process and the approval of ventures. The idea is for the state to also stand out in the centralized generation of photovoltaic energy, operated by large power plants.
Currently, Minas Gerais is the fourth-largest centralized generator in the country, behind Piauí, Ceará, and Bahia, with an installed capacity of 755 MW in operation and under construction, according to ABSOLAR.
Recently, the State Secretary for the Environment and Sustainable Development (Semad) licensed in record time the largest solar power plant project in Brazil, which will be built in Jaíba, in northern Minas, by the company Aurora Energia. The investment is R$ 6 billion, and the project is set to begin construction in the second half of 2020, with a total installed capacity of around 1,357 megawatts.
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