Brazil targets RE in energy plan

Brazilian wind and solar power will account for 33% of all new generation capacity planned for the next decade, second only to hydro with 45%, according to a draft of the government’s Ten-Year Energy Plan (PDE 2023).

10 September 2014 4:23 GMT Updated 27 September 2016 5:52 GMT

By Alex Spatuzza in Sao Paulo

It anticipates that Brazil’s generation capacity will reach 195.5GW at the end of 2023, a 71GW increase from 1 January this year.

Wind installations will increase almost ten-fold from 2.3GW on 1 January this year to 22.4GW in 2023, according to the federal government’s Energy Panning Authority (EPE), which drew up the plan.

EPE forecasts that new wind capacity will average slightly more than 2GW annually, with a peak of around 4GW each in 2017 and 2018.

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