Comments on: First Brazil 2014 World Cup Solar Powered Stadium Opens http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/27/first-brazil-2014-world-cup-solar-powered-stadium-opens/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Brazil Receives Requests For 392 MW Of Solar Power Projects Within One Week | CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/27/first-brazil-2014-world-cup-solar-powered-stadium-opens/#comment-163985 Fri, 31 May 2013 11:35:29 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52163#comment-163985 […] be located there. It is building several solar-powered football/soccer stadiums for the event, the first of which just opened up. The stadium hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup final will be capped with over 1,500 solar […]

]]> By: James Wimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/27/first-brazil-2014-world-cup-solar-powered-stadium-opens/#comment-163262 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:57:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52163#comment-163262 For those who don’t read Portuguese, the ending “-ão” is an intensifier meaning big”, so “Mineirão” translates roughly as “big mining”; the industry that created the state.

Solar companies paid to put solar roofs on soccer stadiums in Brazil as loss leaders to create public awareness and possibly enthusiasm. It’s probably no longer necessary; the federal energy regulator ANEEL now registers applications for hundreds of megawatts a month of utility solar.

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