A research on the use of energy resources in the Amazon

作者：Matos Fernando B; Camacho Jose R^*; Rodrigues Pollyanna; Guimaraes Sebastiao C Jr

来源：Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2011, 15(6): 3196-3206.

DOI：10.1016/j.rser.2011.04.012

• Energy distribution
• Isolated communities
• Power systems
• Distributed generation
• Renewable energy
• Operation planning

The Amazon is a large area of forest that shelters the largest biodiversity in the planet. Although a region of richness in energy resources, around 40% of local residents do not have access to an electrical network, and the other 60% are connected to the largest islanded system in the world, supplied mainly by thermoelectricity running on diesel engines, spread for hundreds of communities, distributed along river banks, and inside thickest rain forest in the world. This situation does not allow the implantation of enterprises and industry, and mainly the development of resident communities inside the forest what relegates the population to a situation of low social and economical development, giving space to a predatory exploitation of natural resources, risking the environment where they are inserted. The use of alternative energy sources to substitute diesel oil or for its complementation start from the knowledge of available resources for the use of solar energy in the region, allied to the natural resources available with the use of biomass and natural gas and hydraulic resources that are abundant in the region.

• 出版日期2011-8