Nivalde José de Castro

TL;DR: In this paper, some innovative arrangements for pumped-hydro storage, which increases the possibility to find suitable locations for building large-scale reservoirs for long-term energy and water storage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an exhaustive systematization of policies and regulatory adjustments of photovoltaic distributed generation diffusion, focusing on the electricity distribution sector, identifying possible common patterns and path dependence trajectories.

TL;DR: This work presents a methodology to perform a multi-criteria decision analysis based on qualitative assessments from multiple experts or stakeholders, consisting of an assessment of policies to foster technological innovations in the electricity sector, namely in a context of evolution to smart grids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the characteristics of the Brazilian electricity sector to the 2030s, evaluating the uncertainties inherent in energy use patterns, the expectation of expanding the supply of electricity, the rate of development, the spread of smart grids, the insertion electric vehicles, commercial and regulatory trends as well as the future structure of the business environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that in humid regions, such as in Brazil, the hydropower storage reservoirs contribute to increase the flow of the river and propose strategies to allow the reservoirs to fill up and to maintain the reservoirs filled in the future.