<![CDATA["many Amazonian communities aren’t connected to the grid.]]>"many Amazonian communities aren’t connected to the grid. In remote areas...transmission lines are difficult to build and maintain. Instead, they depend on polluting diesel fuel for electricity.
"Diesel, transported by boat, is burned by about 160 local thermal plants and thousands of generators...
"Now, panels and lithium batteries are beginning to transform the region, supplementing or replacing diesel altogether."

Bloomberg https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/solar-panels-batteries-changing-life-133018176.html

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Around the world places that don't have significant legacy fossil fuel infrastructure are going to skip over oil and gas in favour of solar and wind; not for environmental reasons (although those are great) but for pure economic reasons as renewable are cheaper to install and maintain.

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