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Brazil’s renewable energy landscape has changed significantly over the last decade. Although Brazil is mostly known for biofuels production and conventional hydroelectric power — hydroelectric power by itself accounts for over 70 percent of the country’s electricity generation — investment in the wind and solar sectors has been increasing rapidly since 2009.

What could you do with the amount of energy produced by one solar panel in a year? How about the amount of energy produced by 350 solar panels in a year or even 6,500 solar panels?

* Sees 2016 earnings/shr $4.50-$4.70 vs est $4.66 (Adds CEO comments, details)

LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - As oil firms scrap dozens of billions worth of mega projects essential for supplies in decades ahead, fresh output from huge fields already being developed is set to weigh for many more months on an oil market struggling to shake off a glut.

WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Poland's fourth-biggest power company Energa will consider bidding for local heating plants owned by French utility EDF if they become available, industry website wnp.pl quoted Energa's chief executive as saying.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - SunEdison Inc said it closed a polysilicon factory in Texas after China imposed a 53.6 percent tariff on polysilicon manufactured in the United States, and planned to sell a silicon wafer factory in Malaysia.

ZURICH, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Swiss inspections group SGS denied on Thursday any responsibility for security at the site where radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq disappeared last year.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - SunEdison Inc said it would sell a facility in Malaysia that produces silicon wafers and close a polysilicon manufacturing plant in Texas, blaming Chinese tariffs on polysilicon manufactured in the United States.

ZURICH, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Swiss inspections group SGS denied on Thursday any responsibility for security at the site where radioactive material used to test pipes at an oil field in southern Iraq disappeared last year.

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Duke Energy Corp reported a five-fold rise in quarterly profit, helped by higher income from its regulated utilities and a return to profit in its international business.

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