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"Just three years ago, Brazil did not feature among the world’s top producers
of solar energy, but by 2023 it had risen to sixth place in the rankings. The
pace of growth has been notable: since 2022, the country has added, on average,
roughly one gigawatt of solar capacity every month. Last year, solar overtook
wind power to become the country’s second-largest source of electricity.
The only reason this pace has not been faster is Brazil’s sluggish economic
performance, which has curbed energy demand, according to Roberto Kishinami,
energy and industry manager for the Institute for Climate and Society (ICS), an
environmental fund working in Brazil. Between 2019 and 2022, Brazil’s GDP grew
by an annual average of 1.5%; in 2023, this figure was 2.9%. “When the sector
was planned ten years ago, the expected rate was 3.5%,” he tells
Dialogue
Earth.
How did Brazil come to make this exponential leap in solar energy? As experts
tell
Dialogue Earth, this did not happen overnight: it has been the result of
a decade of progress building domestic capacity, propelled by public
incentives, a reduction in production costs and an expansion of ambition in
meeting the challenge of climate change."
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/light-into-lightning/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
