Brazilian Public Policies to Promote the Photovoltaic Energy Sector with a Focus on Technological Innovation in the State of Bahia

Brazil is a country with high solar irradiation rates and some regions of the country have even more favorable geographical characteristics for the production of this type of energy, representing 3% of the total eletric matrix. Thus, this research aims to map which are the main national and state public policies related to the clean and renewable energy sector that encompass the photovoltaic solar energy segment in order to draw a parallel with science, technology and innovation policies, and how they favor the sector's innovation in the State of Bahia. The qualitative approach, with an exploratory character, was used to analyze and map public policies, through bibliographic and documentary research using the Web of Science, Scielo and Scopus bases in the period between 2000 and 2020. As a result, a model of analysis of the public policies separating them into technical and financial mechanisms, through these instruments an overview of the photovoltaic sector in Bahia was presented.