Brazil’s new energy minister Bento Albuquerque indicated the country's current power tendering system will remain largely intact with “no lack of support” for sources such as wind and solar – but also committed to nuclear expansion in the South American nation.
Naval officer Albuquerque will oversee policies for the power, oil and gas and mining industries for Jair Bolsonaro, the incoming far-right president whose climate-sceptic views, combined with cultural and social conservatism, and extreme free-market economics, have set alarm bells ringing among environmental campaigners since his election late last year.
