Comments on: Brazil Planning For Another 300 MW Of Solar PV Energy

By: Brazil Receives Requests For 392 MW Of Solar Power Projects Within One Week | CleanTechnica

Fri, 31 May 2013 11:36:00 +0000

[…] But one of the key drivers of solar in Brazil is that it has become cheaper than the cost of grid electricity in the country. In December 2012, we noted an influx of 21 solar power project applications in the country totaling nearly 1,000 MW (1 gigawatt) of solar power capacity. In mid-May 2013, 13 requests were put in for the 392.4 MW total mentioned above, following about 300 MW across 12 requests not long before that. […]

By: Mike form sunny Brasil

Mike form sunny Brasil — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:35:00 +0000

First we need to see if all this passes the judge. Like with the buildig where clean energie is created by destroying immense parts of nature, here too there will first need to be delt with the court of law, because these green solutions, actually need to destroy more enviorment than they save. Eventhough we live here in a bananarepublik, these things are stopped before these great solutions create bigger problems than the not proven problem itself! The way courst work here, there will be nothing built before the WC, but who knows it will be in time before the Olympics, if it gets the green light, tht is with a big IF!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:00:00 +0000

but didn’t make it to the semifinals for 2 World Cups in a row… think with that being the case they have to be humble enough to accept that there are other top countries as well.

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:38:00 +0000

Too bad they are still catering to China to exploit their resources. Hello to dozens of dams in the Amazon. And goodbye to indigenous people, biodiversity, and rainforest.

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:17:00 +0000

Brazilians would be deeply insulted by your remark that “Brazilian national soccer teams compete with the world’s other top soccer nations at the highest level.” Their feeling is that Brazil, which has won the World Cup more times than any other country, is by right Top Soccer Nation and it’s a national shame when the team lose to johnny-come-latelies.
Good news that solar is slowly warming up. Wind has already taken off. Brazilian electricity is mostly renewable in the form of hydro. The environmental argument for wind and solar is therefore less about direct carbon emissions than about drowning rainforests remote from consumers; the political argument about shifting power away from giant parastatal utilities. Google Belo Monte.