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Brazil launches new buoy to evaluate potential for offshore wind farms

Brazil began using equipment capable of measuring the speed and direction of the wind at sea, which makes it possible to evaluate the potential for the installation of offshore wind farms, considered key in the future as non-polluting sources of energy, local media reported yesterday.

Named Bravo (Portuguese acronym for Offshore Wind Evaluation Remote Buoy), the buoy was developed by the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel) in partnership with the Senai Institutes for Innovation in Renewable Energies (ISI-ER) and Embedded Systems (ISI-SE) and began to be used by the state-owned oil company Petrobras.

The project began . . .

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