According to data from the latest demographic census by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), around two million Brazilians still do not have access to electricity in the country. These are people who live in small, isolated communities and, due to the lack of electricity, also end up not having access to a better quality of life.
Realizing this fragility, many entities have shown solidarity with the situation and invested part of their capital in the development of projects that bring electricity from renewable sources to the residents of these locations. In June of this year, around 750 residents of Vila Restauração, in the interior of Acre, for example, will have continuous access to energy through the installation of a solar system carried out by the companies Energisa Acre and Alsol.
Currently, the inhabitants of the riverside community have access to electricity for only a few hours a day. Another example of social action is the one being produced by the Government of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, which announced earlier this month the beginning of the project to universalize the Ilumina Pantanal program.
The idea is to bring electricity to around 5 people who live in hard-to-reach areas and who do not yet have access to the service this year. The initiative aims to supply 90 km² of the biome by the end of 2022, the equivalent of the territories of the Netherlands and Denmark combined.
In total, more than 2 isolated properties in the municipalities of Aquidauana, Corumbá, Coxim, Ladário, Miranda, Porto Murtinho and Rio Verde de Mato Grosso will benefit. Discussions on the project began in 2014 and have involved investments of R$134 million. While some communities are still waiting to benefit, others are already experiencing the new development.
For at least five years, Bell Sol has been running initiatives that bring energy to regions that do not have access to the resource. “We have more than 25 projects in underprivileged communities, in addition to the Bell Sol Social program, where every year we make photovoltaic solar kits available to a community or a needy family,” said Walber Oliveira, the company’s technical director.
At the turn of the year, residents of a residence in the city of Itingá do Pará, on the border between the state of Pará and Maranhão, were given two solar panels by the organization.
Federal investment
At the end of last year, the MME (Ministry of Mines and Energy) and the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) signed a technical cooperation agreement to raise funds for the Mais Luz para a Amazônia program. The initiative aims to bring clean, renewable energy to 82 families – around 350 people – living in riverside, indigenous and quilombola communities, in conservation units located in remote areas of the Legal Amazon.
The program foresees the use of renewable sources of electricity generation, mainly photovoltaic systems, and the replacement of small diesel or gasoline-powered electricity generators, which are currently the only source of electricity for many families living in these remote regions. The states that make up the Legal Amazon are: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins and Maranhão.
Solar expansion
In February this year, Brazil reached the mark of 5 GW of installed power, according to data from ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency). According to ABGD (Brazilian Association of Distributed Generation), the projected growth of this modality for this year is over 50%.
The association estimates that the DG segment should end 2021 with an installed capacity of more than 7 GW, even with all the negative effects caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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