Brazil's utility-scale module imports fall 82% as curtailment bites
Total imports halved to 5.48GW in the first half. The centralised segment collapsed from 2.3GW to 430MW, and prices went up 12.9% while volumes fell.
Victoria Shinder
Contributing writer
Writes about energy policy and the distance between what a decision says and what it does to a bill.
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