Featured in Down to the wires 06-2024

One constraint, several solutions

The rapid growth of renewable energy in Brazil has not been matched by transmission and distribution infrastructure. Connection restrictions for both “distributed-” and centralized-generation sites are leading companies to adopt new strategies to maintain expansion, reports pv magazine Brasil’s Livia Neves.

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Lívia Neves

10 Jun 2024

Auren Energia’s 48.1 MW Sol do Piauí site was the first hybrid project approved by Aneel. | Photo: Auren Energia

Grid connection queues in Brazil are offering new opportunities for energy storage and hybrid systems and opening new energy business models. Renewables companies including Auren, Statkraft, and Casa dos Ventos are adding solar and batteries to their utility-scale wind power sites to use existing power transmission capacity.Batteries are also making inroads into small-scale, distributed generation …

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