Brazil Offers New Green Building Credit Terms
Since June 2015, the CAIXA bank owned by the Brazilian government has been offering improved financing conditions for energy-efficient housing projects built under the social housing programme Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) to promote energy saving. As growing electricity demand is constantly...
"I appreciated the initiative of introducing a new standard"
Elizabeth Duarte Pereira can look back at 40 years of solar thermal research in Brazil. Today, she is Professor at the UNA University Centre in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais and is about to help set up a new test facility in Brazil - the third in her research career. During...
Brazil: New Requirements for Solar Installations on Social Housing
The Brazilian social housing programme 'My Home My Life' has now entered its second phase (2011/2014). Despite new rules, installing a solar water heater remains mandatory for all single-family houses whose owners have a wage lower than Brazilian Real (BRL) 1,600. The sector had to wait...
Brazil: low Income Multi-family House with individual Solar Water Heaters and Gas Back-up
The cooperation project between the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the federal housing bank CAIXA bears first fruits. A multi-family house in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro with 496 units was equipped with one thermosiphon system each. This installation serves as...
Brazil: Social Housing Programme mandates Solar Water Heaters
All new houses built within the framework of "My Home My Life" (Minha Casa Minha Vida), a Brazilian housing programme for families with an income of a maximum of three times the minimum wage in the South, Southeast and Midwest region, will have to be...
Brazil: My Home My Life Programme requires Qualisol certified Installers
The Brazilian installer label Qualisol has recently gained greater visibility in the market. Not only does CAIXA, the national mortgage bank for the housing sector, now require installers to provide a Qualisol label to take part in the social housing programme My Home...
Brazil: How the "My Home my Life" Programme Can Help the Solar Water Heater Sector
Minha Casa Minha Vida: This spring, the Brazilian Government launched the "My Home My Life" programme, which plans to set up 1 million homes for low-income families over the next two years and may also benefit the solar sector.
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