Author(s)

Neilton Fidelis da Silva^1,2,3, Angela Oliveira da Costa¹, Rachel Martins Henriques¹, Marcio Giannini Pereira^1*, Marcos Aurelio Freitas Vasconcelos^1,2

¹Energy Planning Program (PPE), Coordination of Postgraduate Programs in Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²International Virtual Institute of Global Change—IVIG, Centro de Tecnologia, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Natal, Brazil.

The use of Urban Solid Waste (USW) as sources of energy has acquired rising importance in current discussions of alternative energy supplies, in particular in Brazil. This paper brings to these discussions an examination of the concept of solid wastes, including their historic origins and formation, taking their social, economic and cultural characteristics into account, including point view of waste production liturgy. Consequently, a spendthrift society slanted towards the decreasing marginal utility of assets must make efficient use of its USW in order to reduce excessive output. Besides that, this document presents the Brazilian potential of urban solid waste to produce electric power.

Urban Solid Wastes, Renewable Energy, Energy Planning, Brazil

da Silva, N. , da Costa, A. , Henriques, R. , Pereira, M. and Vasconcelos, M. (2015) Energy Planning: Brazilian Potential of Generation of Electric Power from Urban Solid Wastes—Under “Waste Production Liturgy” Point of View. Energy and Power Engineering, 7, 193-202. doi: 10.4236/epe.2015.75019.