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This Tuesday (02), Brazil surpassed the brand of 41 GW of power installed in solar energy, second data from ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency). This number contemplates both to G.D. (distributed generation) regarding GC (centralized generation).
At the moment, the country has 28.01 GW in GD and 13.04 GW in GC. Brazil reached the mark of 40 GW at the beginning of month of march, that is, in one month it added another GW of power to its energy matrix.
Distributed generation
Brazil has 2.48 million systems that benefit 3.57 million consumers in the Solar DG segment. The systems are installed in 99% of Brazilian municipalities, 5,547 of the 5,570 cataloged by IBGE.
The main consumption classes in this segment are residential, responsible for 13.5 GW, and commercial class, which is responsible for another 8 GW. The rural and industrial areas are responsible for 4 GW and 2 GW, respectively.
Centralized generation
Meanwhile, in the GC segment, in addition to the 12.99 GW in operation, there is still another 131.8 GW granted in plants that have not yet come into operation.
Of these 131.8 GW, around 6.8 GW are in plants under construction and the remainder in works that have not yet started. All 26 Brazilian states, in addition to the Federal District, have at least one large plant in operation.
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