Brazil’s smart grid deployment gets a push
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a $605,000 grant to support large-scale smart grid deployment in Brazil.
The award to the Brazilian Association of Electricity Distributors (Abradee) is intended to provide technical assistance to analyse regulatory scenarios to support and enable further smart grid deployments in Brazil.
Specifically, the focus will be on two main topics, viz public policies and economic regulation models that could further facilitate investments and encourage the modernisation of the electricity distribution networks across Brazil.
With the results that emerge, Abradee, together with Brazil’s electricity regulatory agency Aneel, the telecommunications regulatory agency Anatel and the national electricity system operator ONS intend to seek public policies that can lead to a full deployment of smart grids in the country.
