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Alfredo Moser (* 1951 in Itajaí) is a Brazilian mechanic, and the inventor of the solar bottle bulb, known also as the ‘Moser Lamp’, or the PET bottle lamp. [1] [2] His invention led to the creation of the open-source organization Liter of Light, which offers sustainable lighting to families without electricity access in numerous countries worldwide.
In 2023, Brazil was the 6th country in the world in terms of installed solar power capacity (37.4 GW). [2] Brazil expects to have 1.2 million solar power generation systems in the year 2024. [3] Solar energy has great potential in Brazil, with the country having one of the highest levels of insolation in the world at 4.25 to 6.5 sun hours/day. [4]
Pirapora Solar Complex, one of the largest in Brazil and Latin America, with a capacity of 321 MW. In October 2022 Brazil reached 22 GW of installed solar power. [21] [22] In 2021, Brazil was the 14th country in the world in terms of installed solar power (13 GW), [23] and the 11th largest producer of solar energy in the world (16.8 TWh). [17]
[46] [47] In 2021, Brazil was the 14th country in the world in terms of installed solar power (13 GW), [48] and the 11th largest producer of solar energy in the world (16.8 TWh). [ 49 ] As of August 2021, [ref] according to ONS, total installed capacity of photovoltaic solar was 10.5 GW, with average capacity factor of 21%.
The domestic assembly of the panels was a primary condition for the complex to become the first project of its kind to benefit from investments from the Brazilian Development Bank. [ 1 ] In August 2018, Brazilian energy company Omega Geração S.A. announced its entrance into the solar energy sector with an acquisition of 50% of Pirapora.
On January 23, 2018, news outlets announced that Trump had imposed tariffs on solar panels produced outside the United States. The tariffs initially start at 30% and will gradually fall to 15% in four years. [57] [58] The first 2.5 gigawatts of solar cells imported each year will be exempted from the tariff. [59]
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In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change harmonized the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) findings of the major electricity generating sources in use worldwide. This was done by analyzing the findings of hundreds of individual scientific papers assessing each energy source. [ 2 ]