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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 06 November 2018

In brief: Brazil

* The Brazilian association for wind energy (Abeeólica) has announced that Brazil has passed the 14-gigawatt (GW) mark of installed wind-power generation capacity. This is comparable to the power-generation capacity of the Itaipú hydroelectric dam, on the Brazilian-Paraguayan border, one of the largest in the world, and is equivalent to the average energy consumption of 26m households. The north-east of the country is the principal source of wind power, with the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia, and Ceará home to 146, 133, and 80 of the country’s 568 wind parks. Brazil’s wind-power sector has been steadily expanding, from a generation capacity of less than 1GW in 2011, to 14.34GW today. Abeeólica’s executive president, Elbia Gannoum, notes that investment in Brazil’s wind-power sector is estimated to have reached US$3.57bn last year, totalling over US$30bn between 2010 and 2017.

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