Brazil Solar Energy

A hydroelectric dam that more than twenty years ago flooded hundreds of thousands of hectares of Amazonian forest in Brazil, and it is considered "an environmental crime." Taking advantage of the existing infrastructures, it could now be transformed into a sustainable energy project with floating solar panels to provide the population affordable energy. Brazilian energy minister Eduardo Braga said, "After concluding the studies, we hope we can start auctions in water reservoirs to install floating panels. We have a big potential in Brazil, because we have countless dams with plenty of space to put solar energy panels. These panels come to mitigate the cost-benefit of a construction project that created that huge lake, which is irreversible, you can’t undo that lake. Instead, we can use its great potential for solar energy."