“We can produce power, protect the water from evaporation and test panels for climatic conditions,” state science and technology secretary Inácio Arruda tells Recharge.
He says he already has support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with a $40,000 non-repayable funding to develop a pilot project that would initially install 1MW over one of the main water-supply canals to Fortaleza, Ceará's beach-lined capital city, from its largest inland reservoir, Castanhão.
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