The magic of cinema powered by solar energy is slowly becoming a reality in Brazil.
This Saturday (5), the municipality of Monte Alegre do Sul (SP) will host two sessions of the project CineSolar, the country's first traveling cinema powered by clean energy.
The event has free entry and is scheduled to take place at 19pm, at Praça Bom Jesus, with the screening of the films “The Werewolf of Stone of Fire” and “The Jungle Book”.
Due to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the sessions will follow all safety protocols against Covid-19, with the provision of alcohol gel, distance between chairs and the mandatory use of masks.
Altogether, the photovoltaic system used to show the films, it has 6 solar panels from Canadian Solar, 230 W, as well as 2 charge controllers and a 12 V inverter from Xantrex.
The equipment also has 6 240 Ah batteries that store up to 20 kWh, that is, 20 hours of autonomy for the system (projector and amplifier), which has an average power of 1 kW.
CineSolar
Launched in 2013, CineSolar is an itinerant project that promotes art and sustainability, taking cinema to remote communities with restricted access to culture.
In total, the project has already held around a thousand sessions, showing more than 150 films, including feature films and shorts, in 440 cities across the country, covering more than 200 thousand km and reaching 185 thousand people.
In addition, more than 300 workshops have been taught by the project, providing access to basic techniques and elements that make up cinematographic language.
The project is made possible by the Federal Culture Incentive Law and is sponsored by large entities, such as CPFL Energia. The project was developed entirely in partnership with Sices Solar, which did not generate costs for CineSolar.
