Balanced News: The Energy Dilemmas of Roraima, a Unique Part of Brazils Amazon Region

BOA VISTA, Brazil, Dec 21 (IPS) – “Roraima did not have a Caribbean character; now it does, because of its growing relations with Venezuela and Guyana,” said Haroldo Amoras, a professor of economics at the Federal University of this state in the extreme north of Brazil. It is also the only one of Brazil’s 26 states not connected to the national power grid, SIN, which provides electricity shared by almost the entire country. It also helped fuel the proliferation of solar power plants and the debate on cleaner and less expensive alternatives.