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Luz para Todos ("Light for All") is a program of the Federal Government of
"Brazil’s Light for All Program Promotes Renewable Energy"
''The Temas Blog'', 27 February 2009. Retrieved: 8 November 2010. The project promotes renewable energy as the most practical solution in remote areas. To encourage utilizing that kind of energy, the federal government pays up to 85% of the costs for renewable energy projects in those areas. During the program execution, more families without power at home were located, and the program was extended to be completed in 2010."Programa Luz para Todos"
''Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil'' – web site. Retrieved: 8 November 2010
Luz para Todos ("Light for All") is a program of the Federal Government of Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, launched in November 2003, with a goal of bringing electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as describ ...
to more than 10 million rural people by the year 2008. It was initiated by Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first ...
, then Minister of Mines and Energy of Brazil, operated by the large power utility company Eletrobras
Eletrobras (, full name: Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A.) is a major Brazilian electric utilities company. The company's headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro.
It is Latin America's biggest power utility company, tenth largest in the wo ...
, and executed by electricity concessionaires and cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...
s.Keith R."Brazil’s Light for All Program Promotes Renewable Energy"
''The Temas Blog'', 27 February 2009. Retrieved: 8 November 2010. The project promotes renewable energy as the most practical solution in remote areas. To encourage utilizing that kind of energy, the federal government pays up to 85% of the costs for renewable energy projects in those areas. During the program execution, more families without power at home were located, and the program was extended to be completed in 2010."Programa Luz para Todos"
''Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil'' – web site. Retrieved: 8 November 2010
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