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Según el documento del Plan Solar elaborado por UTE y la Dirección Nacional de Energía (DNE), el objetivo es profundizar la cultura de la eficiencia energética.

"En otros países, con campañas similares, se disparó bastante el numero de paneles instalados

"de acá a cinco años va a haber más casas en Montevideo con paneles que sin paneles. No tiene sentido hoy en día calentar agua por otro medio que no sea sol, teniendo esa posibilidad", indicaron en la firma.

En la actualidad, la capacidad instalada de energía en el país supera los 4.005 MW. El 64,3% proviene de centrales hidroeléctricas, el 33,9% de térmicas y un 0,7% corresponde a los proyectos de generación alternativa. A este último grupo justamente se incorporarán las nuevas centrales eléctricas, cuyos títulos habilitantes ya se están tramitando.

Según estimaciones, se requiere entre 1,5 y 2 millones de dólares por cada MW.

el costo de generación fotovoltaica está entre 25 y 35 centavos cada kilovatios (KW). Mientras que un KW de hidráulica está entre 2 o 3 centavos, térmica con gas entre 3 y 4 centavos, y térmica con motores a combustible entre 11 y 12 centavos.

President Dilma Rousseff last month said utilities will allow homeowners and businesses to install solar panels and trade electricity in the nation's power grid next year as part of Brazil's "bet on an economic-growth model based on clean, renewable energy." Her efforts to promote the technology are being undermined by the financing ban because domestic-made parts are too expensive to make projects viable, said Helcio Garcia Camarinha, chief executive officer of Braxenergy, a developer of solar projects

To qualify for the loan, at least 60 percent of a solar project’s parts must be locally made. So far, the BNDES, or Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social, hasn’t received any requests for the financing, he said.

Homeowners who want to buy Chinese panels can tap a 60-month loan from state-run bank Caixa Economica Federal with rates as low as 18 percent, Jean Benevides, national manager of environment for the Brasilia-based lender, said in a telephone interview. No one has bought solar equipment using the line, which offers the lowest rates for panel purchases in Brazil.

Consider places like Haiti, a nation with severe energy challenges stemming from the 2010 catastrophic earthquake and a growing need for stable, and often distributed solutions.

According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, the market for advanced batteries will roughly double each year over the next 5 years, reaching $7.6 billion in 2017

We are descended, on a time frame of 3.5 billion years, from organisms that succeeded because they were the best at gathering as much as they could in the shortest amount of time possible

How can we arrive at the sustainable, circular, next economy and learn to live within the various budgets that earth can provide?

Align people's economic interests and sense of well-being with the best interests of Earth's ecological totality. Call it next-economy capitalism.