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Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Solar Energy System of the Brazilian States

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This article aims to evaluate the hybrid efficiency of solar and electrical energy for all Brazilian states. This assessment required a financial and economic analysis. From this model, we used the network data envelopment analysis to identify the most efficient state and formulate improvements.

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  1. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

    Mariana Rodrigues de Almeida, Wallace Giovanni Rodrigues do Valle & Alessandro Jackson Teixeira de Lima

  2. Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil

    Joao Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello, Bruno Guimarães Torres & Carlos Alberto de Jesus Martinhon

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Adriana Leiras

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

    Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

  3. Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

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  4. Universidad de Los Andes (UniAndes), Bogotá, Colombia

    Sebastián Villa

  5. Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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de Almeida, M.R., de Mello, J.C.C.B.S., do Valle, W.G.R., Torres, B.G., de Lima, A.J.T., de Jesus Martinhon, C.A. (2020). Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Solar Energy System of the Brazilian States. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_6

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