Geração de energia eólica onshore no contexto das mudanças climáticas: o caso do Brasil

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze wind power generation in Brazil in the current context, taking as a reference information about Brazil's position in the world and the dynamics of wind power generation in the country. The discussion is based on the process of global warming and climate change, impacted by the burning of fossil fuels. In order to minimize/attenuate greenhouse gas emissions, attempts are being made to implement policies that can diversify the global energy matrix in favor of a greater representation of modern renewable sources of electricity generation. It is in this context that wind power plays a fundamental role in allowing a cooling of environmental damage, and Brazil, as one of the protagonists in this process, plays an important role in contributing not only to maintaining its renewable electricity matrix, but, above all, in a diversified way with the insertion of new renewable sources of electricity generation, such as wind, solar and modern biomass, thus minimizing the effects caused by the intensive use of fossil energy sources as a structuring basis for establishing economic development plans throughout the 20th century and during the 21st century. Therefore, despite the country's energy matrix comprising a higher percentage of fossil sources (more than 50%), electricity generation, with a higher percentage share of water sources, contributes to having a less intensive fossil source composition when compared to the world, when the global energy matrix is dependent on fossilized sources, as more than 80% of the internal energy supply comes from this type of source.