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Acceptance of renewable energy innovation in Brazil—case study of wind energy

✍ Scribed by Maria Silvia Muylaert de Araújo; Marcos Aurélio Vasconcelos de Freitas

Book ID
104091209
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
121 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1364-0321

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✦ Synopsis

The paper presents some outputs of renewable energy power plants in Brazil, focusing in the case of wind energy. The information data are mainly acquired from a project developed by the authors with financial resources of Electric Energy National Agengy (ANEEL), United Nations Development Program (PNUD) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT). It was used as the socio environmental impacts to evaluate the acceptance aspect, using as examples some case studies implemented in Brazil and the previous experience of the authors.

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