Brazil’s First Solar Power Storage System Readies for Construction

May 17, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

Brazil’s first-ever solar power storage system will start construction in June after the associated 300-kilowatt, 1,152-panel solar park went online May 15.

The 22.5-million-real ($6.1 million) system is a joint venture between Cemig, the electric company of east-central Minas Gerais state, which invested 17.5 million reais ($4.7 million) and Alsol Energia Renovaveis, a renewable energy technology firm, which invested 5.2 million reais ($1.4 million). The solar park and planned power storage plant is located in Uberlandia, in Minas Gerais.

“This solar park/power storage system, unprecedented in Brazil, will ...

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