The attached video is the Portuguese language completion ceremony.
The plant is 1.2 GW and is located in the northern part of Minas Gerais State in an relatively impoverished semi-arid area.
PV Magazine has more details, including another link to the video above:
www.pv-magazine.com
FWIW, both @AudubonB and I have strong connections in Minas Gerais State which also has extensive mining activities for a wide variety of resources.
Vale started there and is named after Rio Doce Valley where it began. Not coincidently one of the worst ecological disasters in Brazil happened there in one of their sale piles:
www.vale.com
The renewables growth is part of efforts to clean the environment.
Many of those have been connected to Chinese companies with BYD manufacturing electric busses, solar panels and soon to open a large plant in Bahia State to manufacture Cars,
Great Wall Motors has major investments in São Paulo State Iacquiring a disused Mercedes Benz factory) :
asiatimes.com
While BYD is building more:
BYD’s Bahia plant still has no address | Business | valorinternational
www.electrive.com
Meanwhile only rumors about Tesla finally delivered our cars reserved during Model 3 Launch.
The plant is 1.2 GW and is located in the northern part of Minas Gerais State in an relatively impoverished semi-arid area.
PV Magazine has more details, including another link to the video above:
Largest PV plant in Americas goes online in Brazil
Elera Renováveis has commissioned the 1.2 GW Janaúba solar complex. The facility, which went online this week, consists of 20 solar parks spread across 3,000 hectares.
www.pv-magazine.com
FWIW, both @AudubonB and I have strong connections in Minas Gerais State which also has extensive mining activities for a wide variety of resources.
Vale started there and is named after Rio Doce Valley where it began. Not coincidently one of the worst ecological disasters in Brazil happened there in one of their sale piles:
Who we are - Vale
Get to know Vale: We are one of the largest global mining companies and we also work in the logistics branch - with railroads, ports and terminals -, power and ferrous metallurgy.
The renewables growth is part of efforts to clean the environment.
Many of those have been connected to Chinese companies with BYD manufacturing electric busses, solar panels and soon to open a large plant in Bahia State to manufacture Cars,
Great Wall Motors has major investments in São Paulo State Iacquiring a disused Mercedes Benz factory) :
China’s Great Wall plows into Brazil as Daimler and Ford flee
In late January, Great Wall Motor (GWM) – the 5th largest Chinese automaker and largest Chinese maker of SUVs and pickups – took possession of an auto factory previously owned by Daimler in Iracema…
asiatimes.com
BYD’s Bahia plant still has no address | Business | valorinternational
BYD to manufacture EVs, chassis and battery materials in Brazil from 2024 - electrive.com
BYD is planning to build three production facilities on a former Ford industrial site in Brazil: one for the production of electric and hybrid cars, one for chassis for electric buses and trucks, and a third that will process lithium and iron phosphate for the international market. To convert the…
www.electrive.com
Meanwhile only rumors about Tesla finally delivered our cars reserved during Model 3 Launch.