Brazil’s Power Infrastructure Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation
Brazil’s highly renewable, but climate-exposed, power system faces growing risks as extreme weather events intensify, threatening reliability and the country’s decarbonization goals. With a vast interconnected grid increasingly stressed by storms, floods, wildfires, and expanding distributed solar, Brazil has a window of opportunity this decade to strengthen its transmission and distribution networks. No single solution can deliver the required resilience at scale; progress depends on combining targeted grid-hardening measures, advanced digital platforms, distributed energy resources, expanded transmission capacity, and nature-based approaches that protect biodiversity. Integrating climate risk into planning, modernizing regulatory frameworks, and enabling cost recovery for extraordinary climate-related investments will be essential to ensure that resilience becomes a core pillar of Brazil’s power sector development.
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