Absolar: Brazilian Solar PV Sector Will Create Between 60,000 & 90,000 Jobs By 2018

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The Brazilian solar photovoltaic sector will create somewhere between 60,000 and 90,000 new jobs by the year 2018, according to the Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy.

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The current project pipeline in Brazil calls for 3.3 gigawatts (GW) of new solar photovoltaic (PV) project capacity to be installed in the country by 2018 — following the recent completion of various energy auctions.

The Brazilian Association of Photovoltaic Solar Energy (Absolar) estimates that, for every megawatt (MW) of new solar PV capacity installed, 20–30 new jobs (direct and indirect) can be created. Absolar notes that, if the assertions are accurate, then this could go some ways towards improving the current unemployment issues in the country. (At the end of 2015, national unemployment rates in the country were hovering around 6.8% — equivalent roughly to 1.7 million unemployed people.)

Notably, these figures only relate to commercial and utility-scale projects — not to the distributed solar PV market (direct generation), which has been growing rapidly as of late.

Absolar executive president Rodrigo Sauaia commented that the direct generation (DG) market will require large growth in the installation business sector, if growth is to continue at pace. Otherwise, a lack of skilled installers could lead to a bottleneck.

Sauaia continued: “We are evaluating the certification mechanisms that have been applied in other countries, trying to understand which of these initiatives have been successful and which ones can be used as a reference for Brazil to plan our own way.”

Check out more coverage of Brazil’s growing solar PV sector.

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James Ayre

James Ayre's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy.

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2 thoughts on “Absolar: Brazilian Solar PV Sector Will Create Between 60,000 & 90,000 Jobs By 2018”

  • JamesWimberley
    March 3, 2016 at 1:53 pm
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    There are a lot of qualified and unemployed German solar installers who could be hired for a year to show Brazilians how to do it. Soon there will be plenty of Brits as well.

    • onesecond
      March 3, 2016 at 4:01 pm
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      Well, unemployment in general is at the lowest point since 1991 in Germany with 4,7% in 2015, but in theory you are right.

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