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According to data from ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency), Brazil has around 670 UCs (consumer units) with their own energy generation from solar sources. Solar Energy Events have driven the growth of this form of energy generation in several regions of the country.
Currently, Minas Gerais leads the state ranking with around 120 thousand UCs. In second place is São Paulo, with approximately 110 thousand, and Rio Grande do Sul, which has around 95 thousand photovoltaic systems.
Regarding the consumption class, the one that appears at the top of the list is the residential segment, with 515 thousand consumer units, followed by the commercial sector, with 95 thousand, and the rural sector, which has 50 thousand systems.
There is no doubt, there are thousands of plants spread across Brazil generating savings and sustainability. And when it comes to nominal power, do you know which are the 5 largest plants in the country?
O Solar Channel carried out a survey based on the latest monthly photovoltaic generation bulletin from the ONS (National Electric System Operator). Check out:
1st place: Solar Complex São Gonçalo
Located in the semi-arid region of Brazil, in the state of Piauí, the São Gonçalo solar array It currently has 575.725 MW. According to Enel Green Power, the park is still under construction and, when completed, will have 864 MW.
In total, there will be more than 2.2 million solar panels. The facility occupies an area of around 12 million m², the equivalent of approximately 1,500 football stadiums. Furthermore, more than 1.2 million tons of CO₂ per year will be avoided with the construction of the project.
2nd place: Pirapora Solar Complex
With an investment of around R$ 2 billion, the Pirapora Solar Complex, located in the North of Minas Gerais, was installed by the Spanish company Solatio Energia in partnership with Canadian Solar, which supplied around 1.2 million panels.
In total, the plant has 329 MW and occupies an area of 800 hectares, which corresponds to a plot of land the size of 1,500 football fields. The project is located in the middle of a plain 350 km north of Belo Horizonte (MG), in the center of sparse vegetation.
3rd place: Conjunto Sol do Sertão
The Sol do Sertão photovoltaic complex, located in the city of Oliveira dos Brejinhos (BA), has 285.76 MW. In total, 1,075,200 LONGi bifacial panels and 122 Sungrow inverters were used.
During the construction of the plant, which covers an area of 700 hectares, approximately 1,500 direct employment opportunities were created for the city's inhabitants.
The Essentia Energia plant, part of the Pátria Investimentos group, was connected to the national electricity grid and went into operation on July 19, 2021.
4th place: Nova Olinda Solar Park
The 210 MW Nova Olinda Solar Park is located in the municipality of Ribeira do Piauí (PI) and has almost one million photovoltaic panels installed on 690 hectares, an area equivalent to 700 football fields.
Employing around 2 thousand people for its construction, Nova Olinda had the support of the State Government, through R$ 80 million in tax incentives, for a total of almost R$ 1 billion invested.
All the power produced in the park is transmitted from the company's own substation to the Chesf substation in São João do Piauí, where it is supplied to the national electrical distribution system.
5th place: Ituverava solar park
The Ituverava Solar Park is located near Tabocas do Brejo Velho, 800 km from Salvador (BA), and has 196 MW of installed power. In total, US$ 400 million were invested in the construction of the plant, which came into operation in September 2017 and covers an area of 579 hectares, the equivalent of 700 football fields.
The 850,000 solar panels used prevent the emission of 318,000 tons of CO₂ each year. Furthermore, Ituverava's seven subfields are among the top ten in efficiency in the Brazilian renewable energy market.
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Where to find the most affordable solar panels to buy? Someone answers.
We are only at the beginning of this great change where we can have autonomy in energy generation and the monopoly generated by concessionaires finally comes to an end. We are experiencing technological changes that are getting faster every day and I think that when we reach the end of the useful life of solar panels, we will already have a viable destination for them, in addition to having avoided tens of trillions of tons of CO₂ per year.
Solar panel 97% is recyclable, does not generate environmental problems. In addition to the evolution that will certainly occur over the next 25 years. It should reach 100% for recycling.
Brazil has the largest area of land for solar energy production, as well as high insolation for this purpose. We will soon be the largest producer of solar energy on earth, in addition to hydroelectric plants and wind generators (we have the largest wind turbine parks in the country in the Northeast). Thus, Brazil becomes the largest producer of green energy in the history of humanity. No consumption of fossil or vegetable fuels (coal).
Unfortunately, there have not yet been major advances in solar energy with increasingly larger panels for questionable energy production, in this matter I still believe that wind energy is less impactful in the long term, if a study is carried out on the bird migration route, than energy fotovoltaica.which occupies large areas and on top of that the disposal of so many panels in the long term is not taken into account.
Has anyone thought about the end of its useful life, which is short (25 years), how and where so much plaque will be disposed of??
What does the legislation provide?
Wonderful, I'm starting in the Solar Energy sales area here in Santa Catarina in the municipality of Itapoá, at the company ENERGIA SC engineering by Electrical Engineer ADRIANO, very good.
Coremas (312 MW) and Santa Luzia (as well as São Gonçao is under construction and will have 1,625 GW), in PB, are also large.
I think clean energy is very good.
They are to be congratulated.