Wind energy in Brazil: a national evolution decade compared to global wind development

Abstract

Renewable energy is fundamental to ensure more sustainability to contemporary global development. In this context, the wind energy has stood out in recent years. This article aims to: show the wind energy development in the World and in Brazil in the last decade; present and comment the regulatory framework evolution and your revision in Brazil; comment the future perspectives about energy complementarity and offshore wind power in Brazil. The methodology used was: literature review and general analysis of the Wind power in Brazil (contextualization, prospects and critical evaluation). The conclusions were: the development with wind power in Brazil and the World are success cases in this last decade; The regulatory framework allowed that Brazilian installed capacity of onshore wind farms has exceeded 15 GW in 2019, but there is still a potential of 522 GW to be explored and there is a need to improve the regulatory framework; There are significant potentials available for complementarity of wind power with solar and hydropower and offshore wind power potentials were estimated between 57 GW and 1,780 GW.