Filed under electricity-grids.

A Contract Test for Macaíba's Wind

Brazil's new data-centre tax law, Redata, asks companies to cover their electricity demand with renewable contracts — measured annually, not hourly. In a Northeast grid that curtailed 20 per cent of its wind and solar potential in 2026, that test proves ownership of clean megawatt-hours, not absorption of stranded ones. The forthcoming decree can require hourly metering data without narrowing the statute's scope.