Brasil's Piaui to develop solar energy atlas

• Brazil's Piaui state revealed it will certainly create an atlas of the state's solar irradiation in collaboration with research foundation Fadex.

In addition to mapping locations, the brand-new atlas will certainly provide essential technological data for the feasibility of photovoltaic (PV) and also thermal solar generation projects.

The production of the record should take 12 months. The atlas will certainly be composed not just of a physical paper but likewise an electronic programme for checking out maps in a geographical information system (GIS), a solarimetric and also atmospheric database, and also training programs.

With the atlas in hand, the Piaui government will make the technical info obtainable to interested events in order to bring in solar investments.

On the same day, guv Wellington Dias said the state will look into granting tax exemption for renewable energy firms.