Brazil Needs State Incentives to Boost Solar Power, MPX Says

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MPX Energia SA, which is building South America’s first privately owned solar energy plant in Brazil, says the country needs more incentives to help the renewable energy technology take off as it has in neighboring nations.

MPX’s 1-megawatt pilot project is expected to be attached to Brazil’s national power grid within two weeks and to begin producing power by the end of May, Lucio Coelho, business manager at MPX said in a telephone interview.