The state’s renewable energy sub-secretary Milton Lautenschlager also revealed that secretariat officials are currently preparing auction rules, which should be ready by the beginning of the second half.

In recent years São Paulo state has reduced value-added tax (VAT) and offered competitive conditions for the production and acquisition of equipment for the biomass, solar heating and wind sectors.

It now wants to extend the reduction of VAT to PV inverter production and sale, and to power bought from renewable sources.

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