Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
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Abstract

DEMANBORO, Antonio Carlos, MARIOTONI, Carlos Alberto, NATURESA, Jim Silva et al. A sustentabilidade através de empreendimentos energéticos descentralizados. In Proceedings of the 6. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2006, Campinas (SP, Brazil) [online]. 2006 [cited 18 April 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022006000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

This paper presents discussions about the environmental impacts of the current ways of centralized electric energy generation related to the Brazilian economic model which has characterístic of income concentrataion, as well as to the environmental and social problems of the great metropolises. Therefore, discussions of the opportunity and the insert forms, in the Brazilian energy system, of the sustainable energy enterprises - small hydroelectric power plants, eolic energy, solar photovoltaic and hydrogen, are also presented.

Keywords : Fontes renováveis de energia; hidrogênio; energia eólica; energia solar; pequenas centrais hidrelétricas.