EDIFÍCIO SOLAR FOTOVOLTAICO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS

O PIONEIRISMO NA PRODUÇÃO DE ENERGIA SUSTENTÁVEL NA AMAZÔNIA

Abstract

The development of agriculture, with the domestication of animals and plants, only occurred in the last 10 thousand years. Before, humanity lived exclusively from simple predation. With capitalism and the industrial revolution, the use of natural resources intensifies, generally in an extremely predatory manner, threatening the collapse of the productive system itself. Reconciling the development of productive forces with the rational use of natural resources has been humanity's permanent challenge. One of the main inputs to the production process is energy, in general coming from fossil fuels, highly polluting, and hydraulics, with a very large environmental impact, therefore, the present challenge, is to produce sustainable energy, that aims to guarantee the supply of this strategic input and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially carbon dioxide (CO2). In Amazonas, located in the equatorial zone, the best option is solar energy. Wind energy suffers from irregular winds and with a speed of 1 m/s. And hydraulic energy has a very large environmental impact, as the example of UHE Balbina demonstrates. Initial data of the project “Study of the Photovoltaic Solar Energy Potential in the FCA Solar Building of the FCA and its replication through the ESF Training Center on the UFAM campuses”, with 280 kW of installed power, indicate that for every 1,000 kW of energy produced by the FCA photovoltaic system there is a suppression of 1.2 tons of CO2 and an equivalent of 55 trees planted.