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UFPA (Federal University of Pará) is developing a program to improve energy efficiency on the Belém campus and in the communities surrounding the institution.
Called SIMA (Sistema Inteligente Multimodal da Amazônia), the project will feature a photovoltaic solar plant, electric buses and boats, a battery storage system and fueling stations.
The first bus foreseen in the project has already arrived at the campus and will begin operating as soon as school activities return to normal. It is a BYD bus, Viaggio G7 model from Marcopolo 1050.
“There will be two models of commercial electric bus, one urban and the other highway. The urban vehicle will travel internally to the Guamá Campus, replacing one of the fossil fuel vehicles in the existing fleet. The second will travel between the UFPA Campuses Guamá and Castanhal”, explained professor Maria Emília Tostes, one of those responsible for the project.
“The third vehicle, the boat, is being designed and manufactured as a prototype. It will have the concepts of renewable energy with efficiency in transport systems, ensuring safety, comfort and low operating costs of the proposed system”, added Maria Emília.
According to the professor, the riverside communities surrounding UFPA will also benefit, as residents will be able to use the boat with its own photovoltaic generation and storage batteries to get around.
UFPA also states that SIMA's infrastructure will allow the creation of a laboratory in terms of new transport technologies, energy generation integrated with storage, wireless communication system in a forest environment and distributed data storage in the cloud.
According to the university, after the results obtained, the business model, which will be generated by the SIMA pilot project, will be ready to be implemented by different market sectors.
