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Usinas termelétricas a gás natural: o papel estratégico das UTEs na segurança energética do Brasi
Energy security, Energy Transition, Thermoelectric
The expansion of Brazil’s electricity matrix requires more than just an increase in generation capacity. In a system with a growing share of variable renewable energy sources, power availability, operational flexibility, and supply reliability become fundamental components of energy planning. In this context, natural gas-fired power plants play strategic roles, yet they also present challenges related to fuel supply, operating costs, and decarbonization. Understanding these characteristics is essential for evaluating their role within the country’s energy infrastructure.
Electric Matrix, Electricity Sector, Energy security, Energy Transition
Energy security is an economy's ability to rely on sufficient, reliable energy at costs compatible with its development. In the electricity sector, this depends on diversified generation, grids capable of transmitting electricity, planning, coordinated operation, flexibility, storage, and demand response. In Brazil, the high share of renewable sources represents an advantage, but it also requires continuous adaptation of the infrastructure and system operations.
Do potencial ao mercado: infraestrutura e rastreabilidade marcam nova etapa do biometano no Brasil
Bioenergy, Biofuel, Biomethane, Energy Transition
The development of Brazilian biomethane is entering a more complex phase. After years in which much of the discussion focused on production potential, the agenda is now explicitly incorporating the infrastructure needed to transport and connect this supply, as well as origin certification, molecule traceability, and mechanisms designed to translate environmental attributes into economic value.
El Niño muito forte aumenta pressão sobre o planejamento energético brasileiro
Climate Change, Energy Transition
A new report indicates a greater than 90% probability of a very strong El Niño between September and November 2026. Learn how changes in rainfall and temperature patterns affect reservoirs, demand, power generation, and the planning of the Brazilian electrical system.
Descarbonização por que reduzir emissões exige transformar a forma como produzimos e consumimos energia
Biofuel, Biomethane, Clean Energy, Decarbonization, Energy Transition
Decarbonization has become a central pillar of the global economic transformation. While the expansion of renewable sources is a fundamental part of this process, reducing emissions requires far broader changes in how energy is produced, transported, stored, and consumed. In Brazil, which already boasts one of the world's most renewable electricity mixes, the challenge is extending to sectors such as transportation, industry, and fuel production, alongside the growing importance of power grids, storage, energy efficiency, biomethane, biofuels, low-emission hydrogen, carbon markets, and new technologies. More than simply replacing fossil fuel sources, decarbonization entails reorganizing entire production systems to create an economy capable of growing with lower carbon intensity.
EPP-Planejar além do clima conhecido-o novo desafio do setor elétrico brasileiro
Climate Change, Energy Transition, ESG, Renewable energy
Climate change is beginning to alter the assumptions underlying Brazil’s power sector planning, broadening the debate around resilience, infrastructure, energy storage, regulation, and energy security.
Biometano, SAF e biocombustíveis como instrumentos de descarbonização industrial e logística.
Biofuel, Circular Economy, Decarbonization, Energy, Energy Transition
Brazil is beginning to turn agro-industrial waste, biomass and its accumulated expertise in biofuels into an energy platform capable of reducing emissions, replacing fossil fuels and strengthening security of supply The decarbonization of industry, freight transportation and aviation cannot depend on a single technology. In activities that require high energy density, long operating ranges, continuous […]
Ativos ambientais e a nova economia da descarbonização no Brasil
Biogas, Biomethane, Clean Energy, Energy Transition, Renewable energy, Sustainability
The transition to a low-carbon economy is no longer an agenda limited to climate mitigation. Increasingly, it is becoming a driver of competitiveness, financing, productive innovation and strategic repositioning for companies, rural producers, investors and governments. In this new context, environmental assets are gaining relevance because they make it possible to turn environmental benefits into measurable, certified, traceable and economically valued instruments.
Mandato do Biometano: o mercado obrigatório está em vigor, mas ainda tem muito a construir
Biogas, Biomethane, Decarbonization, Energy Transition
In early April, Brazil reached a point the energy sector had been awaiting for months. On April 1, 2026, the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) approved the decarbonization target for natural gas producers and importers: a 0.5% reduction in emissions through the participation of biomethane in consumption.