WIND POWER IN BRAZIL: A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

摘要

In this article we present the wind power as renewablernenergy and discuss the benefits and difficulties of its usernin Brazil. It is an exploratory study since there are manyrnstudies on the technology of generating energy throughrnwind, but there are little discussion about the benefits andrnimpacts of its use applied to Brazil. Thus, to support therntheoretical basis, we adopted the approach of survey andrnwe seek in Science Direct all articles written -betweenrn2007 until now in Europe to set up theoretical knowledgernbase. The data collection was made in other journals andrnwebsites to close the gaps of each topic and make a directrnapplication to Brazil. Thus, this paper is a survey on thernuse and prospects of wind energy in Brazil. After a shortrntheoretical introduction involving the issue of sustainablernenergy, our method was to describe the prospects for usernin growth, benefits of using wind power and the need forrnappropriate policies, when considering its use in Brazil.rnWe conclude that despite many difficulties today, thernBrazilian government began to organize to take morernconsistent actions to promote the development of thernpromising wind sector.