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Livia Neves pv magazine Brazil

Livia Neves pv magazine Brazil

Lívia Neves

Journalist, covers the energy sector in Brazil since 2012, focusing on renewable energy. At pv magazine since June 2021, she writes about business, policies and technologies for solar energy in the country.

livia.neves@pv-magazine.com

Articles written by Lívia Neves

Markets

Brazil’s electricity regulator delays decision on storage regulation amid grid tariff dispute Aneel postpones ruling on energy storage tariffs, with debate focusing on transmission charge treatment and limits.

Aug 13, 2025

Sodium-ion batteries

UCB Power and FAS launch sodium battery solar project in Amazon community It's Brazil’s first photovoltaic power plant with sodium battery storage, using 16 batteries for 38.40 kWh of overall storage.

Aug 12, 2025

Markets

Spotlight on Brazil: A market ready for takeoff We continue our summer Spotlight Series with Brazil, with the sector having the potential to attract up USD $8.46 billion in investments.

Aug 06, 2025

Auctions

Brazilian energy storage regulation due this year, regulator official says Daniel Danna, rapporteur for regulator the Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica's (ANEEL) Public Consultation (CP) 39, of 2023, told Brazil's Chamber of Deputies initial energy storage rules would be published in the second half of the year, with two rounds of further regulatory discussion due to finish by 2028.

Jul 03, 2025

Auctions

Brazilian trade associations oppose potential delay to energy storage auction Four trade bodies have written to the government claiming there is no technical or legal requirement to postpone a national auction planned to procure energy storage projects.

Jun 19, 2025

Policy

At least 18 GW of batteries await Brazil’s planned auction While Brazil is making progress in customer-side, "behind-the-meter" and off-grid battery solutions – with more than 700 MWh – it still lacks guidelines for a planned gigawatt-scale national auction. Markus Vlasits, president of the Brazilian Association of Energy Storage Solutions (ABSAE), tells pv magazine about the nation's utility-scale battery bottleneck.

Jun 17, 2025

Auctions

A critical moment for Brazilian energy storage A national procurement round for energy storage systems, planned in the second half of the year, is at risk of lengthy delay just as the grid operator is being forced to curtail large volumes of excess clean electricity.

May 20, 2025

Auctions

Brazilian battery auction order due before June Brazil's Minister for Mines and Energy has said auctions for thermal grid capacity reserve and battery energy storage systems (BESS) will be held this year.

Apr 11, 2025

Distributed

Brazil’s Brasol to invest $26m in commercial batteries-as-a-service The director of Brasol's new business unit, Diogo Zaverucha, said the company sees huge pent-up demand for applications that are not yet regulated, and intends to participate in the storage-dedicated capacity reserve auction planned for the second half of the year.

Apr 08, 2025

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