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A bright future: solar in Brazil

Brazil: The Intersolar South America trade show was held in late August, right in the middle of the mild winter that Southern Brazil experiences. However, many of the conference-goers who had come from around the world to São Paulo were talking more about spring, and specifically a certain date in October.

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Christian Roselund

01 Oct 2014

On October 31st , Brazil’s energy planning agency EPE will hold an auction for reserve power, which for the first time ever will contain a solar-only component. As of late July, 400 PV projects had registered for the auction, with a total capacity of 10.8 GW. This auction could mark the launch of Brazil as …

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