“It's all about financing. We have gotten used to too much from BNDES and this has moved us away from private banks and from financial markets,” Luiz Barroso, president of EPE, the Brazilian energy planning authority, told 45 industry leaders there.
The roundtable theme was New Financing Opportunities for Brazilian Renewable Energy Projects.
Among them are partial or fully US-denominated PPAs, overseas export agency financing, and public-private lending involving multilateral institutions.
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