Environmental impacts originating from a pilot project in renewable energy at the federal university of Campina Grande

Due to the growth of overall energy consumption, alternatives for sustainable development are being heavily invested, as is the case of solar photovoltaic power plants. However, it is important to conduct the study of environmental impacts that are generated with such technology, seeking to prevent environmental damage expressive and ensuring more viable alternatives to the projects. With this, aims to raise the main environmental impacts on the physical, biotic and socio-from a deployment of a mini solar photovoltaic power plant in the Federal University of Campina Grande. For this reason, visits were made to the scenario of this study, accompanied by a team of students in the course of environmental engineering, where he obtained a list of the significant impacts resulting from the pilot project, in addition to researches carried out in national and international scientific studies with an emphasis on the subject under discussion. In this context, it was possible to identify positive impacts, such as the scope of research on the topic and the financial savings in energy costs, as well as negative impacts such as the use and occupation of the soil and the removal of vegetation for deployment of photovoltaic modules. However, the positive impacts presented greater prominence, given that, for this study, have become more expressive.