Comments on: December Brazil Energy Auction To Feature 3.6 GW Of Solar PV & 16.42 GW Of Wind Power http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/31/upcoming-5-energy-auction-brazil-feature-3-6-gw-solar-pv-16-42-gw-wind/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: arne-nl http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/31/upcoming-5-energy-auction-brazil-feature-3-6-gw-solar-pv-16-42-gw-wind/#comment-189651 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58397#comment-189651 “bagasse ethanol program”

To be exact, the bagasse is the residu. The ethanol is produced from the garapa (the liquid containing the sucrose), the bagasse is burnt to power the production process and generate electricity.

]]> By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/31/upcoming-5-energy-auction-brazil-feature-3-6-gw-solar-pv-16-42-gw-wind/#comment-189348 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:15:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58397#comment-189348 The awards for wind under the last auction were constrained by grid issues not price. The same is likely to hold for upcoming auctions, giving an advantage to projects in the high-demand south over the sunnier north-east. Brazil has not yet drawn the conclusion the Chinese government has, that with a wonky grid you should give priority to distributed solar over utility.
The point of solar and wind in Brazil is not so much to reduce carbon emissions from energy – the country is over 80% renewable with its massive dams and bagasse ethanol programme – as to avoid any more big dams in the remote Amazon, which spur deforestation.

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