Brazil

The ‘Perfect Partner’: Brazil Follows its Own Wind Energy Model

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Brazil is a country blessed by nature. Famous for its beaches, renowned for its beauties, the emerging global economic leader is also blessed by huge energy reserves, ranging from deep sea oil to huge rivers that drive hydroelectric production and some of the best wind resources in the world.

Countries have built wind energy as a complement to their existing power infrastructure, but in few places does the natural setting make wind so much “the perfect partner” for hydroelectric power as Brazil, the Global Wind Energy Council said in a report on regulatory frameworks for the country’s emerging wind industry. That is nature at work, with the wind cycle complementing Brazil’s rainy season by blowing strongest during the dry season. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 22, 2012 at 3:30 PM

Decentralization and Its Discontents: Development Alternatives Emerge

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Energy intensive models of economic growth are being questioned by the rise of ‘Development 2.0’, an approach to development that attacks complexity and resource limitations with careful policy design that signals an end to traditional “decentralization” policies advocated by now-struggling Western economies.

Higher levels of economic development require more complex analysis by stakeholders than a strict reading of impact on traditional measures like Gross Domestic Product, UNDP Human Development Report Office Director Khalid Malik said as part of a wide ranging discussion on societal transformation at the Asia Society in New York. Malik’s center works to produce a Human Development Report and index each year, and the cumulative work of the group since 1990 is expected to influence the Rio plus 20 talks being hosted by the United Nations in Brazil later this month. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 8, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Energy in Brazil: A Profile in Local Innovation at Energisa

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For all the talk of lessons learned and new global approaches to energy, local conditions can – and should – prevail when it comes to choices for energy infrastructure additions, one of Brazil’s leading energy executives recently told Breaking Energy.

Brazil has been a “hot” developing market for a number of years, undergoing an economic renaissance even as traditionally dominant US markets have stagnated and neighboring Argentina has marked itself out as a risky place for foreign energy investors. But the country cannot seek to recreate the “gold standard” reliability of US and European generators, Energisa CEO Ricardo Botelho told Breaking Energy at the DNV KEMA Utility of the Future Summit in DC recently. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 17, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Opening Door to Latin America’s Renewable Energy Riches No Easy Task

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Country leaders gathered in Cartagena, Colombia for the Summit of the Americas.

Latin America’s huge available renewable energy resource is appealing for both local and international project developers, but changes in both legislation and regulation are needed to catalyze markets in the region. Keep reading →

 /  Published April 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM

Vestas Navigates Winds Of Change

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Building awareness of wind energy usage for consumers is part of a multi-pronged strategy that will help companies like Danish wind giant Vestas compete even in an increasingly challenging operating environment.

The company is a major sponsor of the WindMade label, an effort that has garnered support from more than a dozen new corporate entities since it launched this summer, and which celebrated its first six months and its new members at a recent event in New York City. Among the new members were Deutsche Bank and global medical technology firm BD. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 9, 2011 at 6:00 AM

Petrobras lets power generation contracts for fields off Brazil: The FPSOs, used to process hydrocarbons and sto… http://bit.ly/rAKV1r

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Petrobras lets power generation contracts for fields off Brazil http://bit.ly/rAKV1r Brazilintel

 /  Published December 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM
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