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Energy-starved Rio favela enjoys solar panels on World Environment Day

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Many poor neighbourhoods aren't properly connected to Brazil's energy grid, making electricity hard to access and expensive to connect to.

Added on the 05/06/2021 12:37:49 - Copyright : Euronews EN

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