Use Of Solar Energy In Brazil Increases And The Country Is Considered One Of The Largest Consumers Of Renewable Energy In The World

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 25/05/2021 at 13:24

Painéis de energia solar – Fonte: Portal solar – https://www.portalsolar.com.br/

Be the first to react!

**Brazil Returns to the World Ranking of Installed Capacity per Year in the Solar Energy Sector According to Absolar. The Country Ranked 9th with Its 3.15 GW of Capacity in Renewable Energy**

According to mapping by the Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar Energy Association (Absolar), using data from the International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme, Brazil ranked ninth in the World Ranking of Installed Renewable Energy Capacity per Year for photovoltaic solar energy in 2020. The data includes both small solar energy systems in distributed generation in homes, industries, businesses, rural properties, as well as large centralized plants.

Understand Better the Solar Energy Mapping by Absolar

According to Absolar’s mapping, in 2020, 3.15 GW were installed from photovoltaic solar energy in Brazil. Of that total, only 617.6 MW is from centralized generation and 2.53 GW in distributed generation systems. Thus, in 2020 alone, the solar energy sector brought approximately R$ 16 billion in new investments and around 99 thousand job openings to Brazil.

From 2012 until the end of 2020, there were about R$ 42.1 billion in investments in renewable energy, generating over 236 thousand accumulated job openings. China leads the ranking for renewable energy, followed by the United States, Vietnam, Japan, and Germany. Brazil had already secured the 10th position in the ranking in 2017 and 11th in 2018.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

Absolar Celebrates Brazil’s Return to the Ranking

Ronaldo Koloszuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Absolar, celebrated Brazil’s return to the ranking with the 9th place but emphasized that Brazil, which has one of the best and largest resources of this renewable energy in the world, has the capacity to achieve more prominence in the solar energy ranking, with programs and policies that counteract global warming and promote the transition to renewable energy.

According to Koloszuk, the country is on the brink of voting on the bill that supports the taxation of solar energy, bringing around R$ 139 billion in investments in the sector by 2050, in addition to more than 1 million job openings in the coming years.

The Growth of Renewable Energy Amid the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the development of new investments in the renewable energy sector. According to studies by PwC, this trend could lead the energy sector to the long-desired zero emission target by 2050.

The Federal Government of Brazil created the Covid Account, through the Decree 10.350/20, to financially support the utilities, maintaining their operations healthy and allowing continued investments in the sector.

Use Of Solar Energy In Brazil Increases And The Country Is Considered One Of The Largest Consumers Of Renewable Energy In The World

**Brazil Returns to the World Ranking of Installed Capacity per Year in the Solar Energy Sector According to Absolar. The Country Ranked 9th with Its 3.15 GW of Capacity in Renewable Energy**

Read Also

Understand Better the Solar Energy Mapping by Absolar

Absolar Celebrates Brazil’s Return to the Ranking

The Growth of Renewable Energy Amid the Pandemic

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.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

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.

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.

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.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

Tired of seeing residents sleeping on the streets, a U.S. city approved a village with 55 micro-houses, rent starting at $300, and an 1880 school transformed into a community center to accommodate people without requiring a minimum income.

Charge the phone with or without a case? Manufacturers warn that a simple layer can retain heat, interrupt charging, and influence the battery’s lifespan after years of continuous use.

Elderly man accumulates 17 tons of garbage inside his house in SP, lives alone among scrap, scorpions, and dengue risk, and ends up being taken to a public shelter after an operation with nine trucks.

Workers were renovating Castro Alves Square in Salvador when they found, under the sidewalk, parts of the facade and staircases of a theater destroyed in 1923 that was once one of the largest in Brazil.

Dissatisfied with people trapped between sidewalks, shelters, and impossible rent in São Paulo, the city government created an aid of R$ 600 to R$ 1,200 to accommodate homeless people in family homes, private properties, or lodgings with technical support.

Use Of Solar Energy In Brazil Increases And The Country Is Considered One Of The Largest Consumers Of Renewable Energy In The World

Brazil Returns to the World Ranking of Installed Capacity per Year in the Solar Energy Sector According to Absolar. The Country Ranked 9th with Its 3.15 GW of Capacity in Renewable Energy

Read Also

Understand Better the Solar Energy Mapping by Absolar

Absolar Celebrates Brazil’s Return to the Ranking

The Growth of Renewable Energy Amid the Pandemic

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.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

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.

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.

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.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

Brazilian scientists are simultaneously advancing two research projects on clean hydrogen and driving solutions that could transform the energy matrix, enhance industrial competitiveness, and accelerate large-scale emission reduction targets.

Advancement in renewable energy: A R$ 150 million project launched by Petrobras and Finep aims to create state-of-the-art electrolyzers for green hydrogen, strengthening national research and preparing Brazil to compete in a billion-dollar energy market.

Illiterate or semi-literate grandmothers were trained to repair solar systems, open rural workshops, and light up homes that still depended on kerosene.

The world has bet on green hydrogen as the fuel of the future, but now faces the side effect: producing 1 kilogram requires about 9 liters of ultrapure water, and the largest projects on the planet are precisely in the driest regions of the Earth, where water is already scarce for people.

Africa has about 500,000 cell towers and most still burn diesel to operate, while companies rush to cover antennas with solar energy and avoid signal blackouts.

Tired of seeing residents sleeping on the streets, a U.S. city approved a village with 55 micro-houses, rent starting at $300, and an 1880 school transformed into a community center to accommodate people without requiring a minimum income.

Charge the phone with or without a case? Manufacturers warn that a simple layer can retain heat, interrupt charging, and influence the battery’s lifespan after years of continuous use.

Elderly man accumulates 17 tons of garbage inside his house in SP, lives alone among scrap, scorpions, and dengue risk, and ends up being taken to a public shelter after an operation with nine trucks.

Workers were renovating Castro Alves Square in Salvador when they found, under the sidewalk, parts of the facade and staircases of a theater destroyed in 1923 that was once one of the largest in Brazil.

Dissatisfied with people trapped between sidewalks, shelters, and impossible rent in São Paulo, the city government created an aid of R$ 600 to R$ 1,200 to accommodate homeless people in family homes, private properties, or lodgings with technical support.

**Brazil Returns to the World Ranking of Installed Capacity per Year in the Solar Energy Sector According to Absolar. The Country Ranked 9th with Its 3.15 GW of Capacity in Renewable Energy**