Brazil Preparing New National Wind Atlas
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Agência Brasil reports that Eletrobrás‘ Energy Research Center (Centro de Pesquisas de Energia – Cepel) is preparing a new national wind atlas for release in late 2010. Researchers feel that the existing wind atlas, prepared in 2001, may have greatly underestimated Brazil’s potential for electricity generation through wind. At that time, the potential was estimated […]
Espirito Santo’s Wind Atlas Finally Online
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009Back in June the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo (ES) unveiled its “atlas” of maps of wind power potential in that state, and urged investors to work with the state to set up wind farms. At the time, I promised Temas Blog readers that once the ES government set up a permanent website locale for […]
A Wind Map for Alagoas
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009A wind atlas has been delivered to the government of the northeastern Brazilian state of Alagoas that was developed by the Curitiba-based Institute of Technology for Development (Instituto de Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento – Lactec) in cooperation with the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal) and the firm Camargo Schubert. [Click on the image at right […]