MiDES: New Data and Facts from Local Procurement and Budget Execution in Brazil

Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

“…This capacity threshold, employed by the Brazilian electricity regulator ANEEL, is used to separate decentralized micro-generation, which includes small rooftop installations or other forms of private generation by firms and is extensively used in solar, from larger utility-scale projects, which are expected to deliver broader socio-economic benefits. We use a wide range of publicly available data, such as employment data from the Ministry of Labor's RAIS database (Ferraz, Finan, and Szerman, 2015;Ulyssea, 2018), as well as data on public receipts and spending (Dahis et al, 2023) , power plant location and meteorology to construct two datasets, at the municipality-month and municipality-year level.…”