Sustainable Rural Energy Development in Brazil

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI ID:860991

Ghandour, A

Under the Luz Para Todos ('Lights for All') Program, the Government of Brazil (GOB) seeks to provide basic electricity services to all its citizens by 2008. An estimated 2.5 million rural households (over 12 million Brazilians) currently lack electric service, with approximately 80% of them located in rural areas. Since many of these households are too geographically isolated to be connected to the national grid, they will receive distributed energy systems, and the government hopes to maximize the use of local renewable resources to service them. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with the GOB and a variety of local partners to identify and implement sustainable off-grid solutions to meet Brazil's rural energy needs. Focused in the Amazon region, these collaborative activities are, on one hand, using field-based activities to build local technical capacity and design replicable models for rural energy development, while on the other hand helping to develop the institutional structures that will be necessary to sustain distributed renewable energy development on a large-scale in Brazil.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99GO10337
• OSTI ID: 860991
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-710-37638
• Conference Information: Presented at the 2004 DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting, 25-28 October 2004, Denver, Colorado. Also included in the proceedings available on CD-ROM (DOE/GO-102005-2067; NREL/CD-520-37140)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
BRAZIL
CAPACITY
DESIGN
Distributed Energy Resources
DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS
ELECTRICITY
Energy Analysis
ENERGY SYSTEMS
HOUSEHOLDS
HYBRID SYSTEM
LARGE-SCALE
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
OFF-GRID
PV
RENEWABLE ENERGY
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RURAL AREAS
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Village Power