Featured in Purchasing power – 04-2025

Supply, demand and the invisible hand

Brazil’s solar market is diversifying, following a record year for installations. Free-market opportunities are opening up for solar and a new grid capacity auction could support further energy storage deployment. Challenges remain, however, as Livia Neves reports.

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Lívia Neves

01 Apr 2025

Engie connected the first Assú Sol PV Complex plant in January 2025, in Rio Grande do Norte, with the 895 MW project set for completion by year-end under PPAs. | Photo: Engie

Brazil’s energy sector wants change. Faced with increasing curtailment of excess solar power and refusals for new grid connection requests, industry stakeholders are calling for greater flexibility in how small-scale, “distributed-generation” (DG) projects are operated and they want to see electricity distribution network operators take on a more active role.Meanwhile, faced with a surplus of …

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