1 Brazilian Real = 56.3718 Hungarian Forint

1 Brazilian Real = 1.2104 Croatian Kuna

1 Brazilian Real = 4.3666 Honduran Lempira

1 Brazilian Real = 1.3549 Hong Kong Dollar

1 Brazilian Real = 0.1406 British Pound Sterling

1 Brazilian Real = 0.393 Fiji Dollar

1 Brazilian Real = 0.159 Euro

1 Brazilian Real = 2.7151 Egyptian Pound

1 Brazilian Real = 2.4881 Estonian Kroon

1 Brazilian Real = 22.3882 Algerian Dinar

1 Brazilian Real = 9.6018 Dominican Peso

1 Brazilian Real = 1.2004 Danish Krone

1 Brazilian Real = 4.3844 Czech Republic Koruna

1 Brazilian Real = 99.2511 Costa Rican Colon

1 Brazilian Real = 679.7446 Colombian Peso

1 Brazilian Real = 1.2341 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Brazilian Real = 144.0615 Chilean Peso

1 Brazilian Real = 0.1694 Swiss Franc

1 Brazilian Real = 0.2445 Canadian Dollar

1 Brazilian Real = 2.1186 Botswana Pula

1 Brazilian Real = 1.203 Bolivian Boliviano

1 Brazilian Real = 0.2465 Brunei Dollar

1 Brazilian Real = 0.066 Bahraini Dinar

1 Brazilian Real = 0.315 Bulgarian Lev

1 Brazilian Real = 14.8273 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Brazilian Real = 0.267 Australian Dollar

1 Brazilian Real = 11.5962 Argentine Peso

1 Brazilian Real = 0.3132 Netherlands Antillean Guilder

1 Brazilian Real = 0.6408 United Arab Emirates Dirham

1 United Arab Emirates Dirham = 1.5606 Brazilian Real

1 Sri Lanka Rupee = 0.0307 Brazilian Real

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.0447 Brazilian Real

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0004 Brazilian Real

1 Lithuanian Lita = 1.9413 Brazilian Real

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0147 Brazilian Real

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.2281 Brazilian Real

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 0.8313 Brazilian Real

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0537 Brazilian Real

The Brazilian government is seeking to award contracts in an auction tomorrow for natural gas- and coal-fueled power plants, reversing a drive that previously favored renewable-energy projects. It would lead to the first new thermal plants in three years, after the government scaled back such projects and awarded wind contracts starting in 2009 and solar energy earlier this year.

Developers, manufacturers, investors and other renewable energy industry stakeholders need to know where the next big market is going to be so that they can adjust their business decisions accordingly.

The Brazilian bank Itau Unibanco Holding SA raised 1.05 billion reais ($408 million) to finance renewable energy and water treatment projects.

Brazil will increase the use of renewable energy, target zero net deforestation and push for low-carbon agriculture as part of its climate proposal, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said in an interview.

The World Bank indicated in its new report "Building Competitive Green Industries: The Climate and Clean Technology Opportunity for Developing Countries" that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries are set to undergo significant growth and create more jobs in the field of clean technology. Anabel Gonzalez, senior director for the World Bank's Global Practice on Trade and Competitiveness, said developing home-grown clean-tech industries will help developing countries more effectively increase the adoption of low-cost clean energy and drive sustainable economic development.

This month alone, we Americans celebrated our nation’s birthday, capped off perfectly by the USA women’s soccer team’s sensational 5-2 victory in the World Cup final. As we hit the halfway point of 2015, the clean-energy industry also has much to celebrate, much of it in the month of June alone and much of it financial.

Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison plans to build one to power the Hawaiian island he bought last year. EBay Inc. has one to run a data center. The University of California at San Diego and the federal government have invested tens of millions of dollars in the technology.

Brazil's latest A-3 auction, matching up developers and power purchasers to prepare renewable energy projects to meet the nation's electricity demand by 2016, was a landslide win for wind energy -- but a shutout for solar, which was included in the process for the first time.

After being shut out of previous renewable energy auctions, and delaying its own auction by two weeks, the state government of Pernambuco held the nation's first solar energy auction on December 27, registering 122.82 MW of energy, six times the country's current entire solar energy output (20 MW). The auction involved 34 bidders proposing roughly 1 GW of capacity; at the end it was narrowed to six companies from Brazil, Italy, Germany, China and Spain. Average price of power finished trading at 228.63 Brazilian reais/MWh (just under U.S. $97), about 9 percent lower than the starting price of R 250.

The Brazilian government is seeking to award contracts in an auction tomorrow for natural gas- and coal-fueled power plants, reversing a drive that previously favored renewable-energy projects. It would lead to the first new thermal plants in three years, after the government scaled back such projects and awarded wind contracts starting in 2009 and solar energy earlier this year.