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seasonality in the South-East, North-East, and North of Brazil. Inter-annual variability is lower for windpower production than … expansion of hydropower in the ecologically and socially sensitive North of Brazil, windpower production could help to cover … Brazil and as inter-annual variation of hydropower production is high. We generate and validate time series of windpower …
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In the context of 100% renewable electricity systems, prolonged periods with persistently scarce supply from wind and solar resources have received increasing academic and political attention. This article explores how such scarcity periods relate to energy storage requirements. To this end, we...
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It is still difficult for biofuel producers to prove the contribution of their biofuels to reducing carbon emissions because the production of biofuel feedstocks can cause land use change (LUC), which in turn causes carbon emissions. A carbon map can serve as a basis to prove such contribution....
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Brazil has to quickly expand its power generation capacities due to significant growth of demand. Government plans aim … at adding hydropower capacities in Northern Brazil, additional to wind and thermal power generation capacities. However … in Brazil can be minimized by optimizing the daily dispatch of photovoltaic, wind, thermal, and hydropower plants. Using …
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clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms … new strategies and mechanisms for boosting clean energy in Brazil and the role that the Clean Development Mechanism and …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze innovations and the innovation system and its dynamics in the ethanol sector in the State of Sao Paulo. More specifically, this paper focuses on the development process in the sector, the public policies taken to promote the sector, and the organizations...
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Brazil is the only sizable economy to date to have developed a home-grown ubiquitously-retailed alternative to fossil …
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. Here, we report the first such study, for the subtropical megacity of São Paulo, Brazil. We combine detailed street …
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sugarcane (a biofuels feedstock) and soybean (thought to be affected by United States corn ethanol production) prices in Brazil … of sugarcane acreage in Brazil is estimated to be approximately zero, whereas the elasticity of soybean acreage is 0 …
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Despite ethanol's penetration into urban transportation, observational evidence quantifying the consequence for the atmospheric particulate burden during actual, not hypothetical, fuel-fleet shifts, has been lacking. Here we analyze aerosol, meteorological, traffic, and consumer behavior data...
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