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nergy is essential in life. Although, Brazil has failed in some management, production, and distribution aspects. Since 2001, the country has been facing an energy instability, dealing with moments of forced power cuts and difficulties with the scarcity of rains. The lack of investments in the sector, allied to the progressive increase of electrical energy consumption by modern society, had caused this energy difficulty in the country. The fact is that Brazil urgently needs to energize itself in an intelligent way, solving problems like the imbalance of country energetic matrix. According to BEM 2016 (National Energy Balance), released by EPE (Energy Research Company), in Brazil, during the 2015 year, nonrenewable energies showed a participation of 58,8% in OIE (Internal Energy Offer), against 41,2% of renewable energies. However, in order to unite energy efficiency with low environment impacts, Brazilian Government is been trying more and more to use renewable energies. According to EPE, these energy sources showed in 2015 an increase of 18,8% in its participation compared to the year before. In this context, solar power has highlighted itself, being increasingly explored whether in the generation for the commercial area or in residential systems.
Distributed and centralized There are two segments in photovoltaic solar power in Brazil: centralized solar photovoltaic generation and distributed solar photovoltaic generation. The first one concerns to the operation traditional model of great Electrical Power plants, with a network of transmission and distribution lines. The second one corresponds to electric power sources connected to the consumers themselves, like power generation at houses roofs. According to Rodrigo Lopes Sauaia, president executive of Absolar (Photovoltaic Solar Power Brazilian Association), today, the distributed generation segment represents about 7,500 photovoltaic systems of micro and mini generation in the country, totalizing around 57 megawatts in installed FULL ENERGY
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