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In the midst of the transition to a carbon neutral economy, companies in the electrical sector will participate in a workshop this Tuesday (24th) and Wednesday (25th).
In an event sponsored by the company Eletrobras, speakers will debate sustainable finance alternatives to finance undertakings in the sector. This is mainly taking into account the transitional phase towards a neutral carbon economy.
The emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the main causes of climate change worldwide. Once trapped in fossil fuels – coal, oil and natural gas – carbon, when burned, is released in the form of CO2. Its concentration is harmful to the atmosphere, and it has already reached a record in 2019: 415 parts per million.
Therefore, the aim is a carbon neutral economy, in which its effects are neutralized or offset: when an activity does not increase the amount of gases that cause the greenhouse effect, or when the same amount of gas is emitted into the atmosphere as that which is withdrawn through different routes – thus leaving a zero balance.
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Conference: participants, dates, times and platform
Among the defendants are Alexandre Siciliano Esposito, head of the Department of Energy at the National Bank for Economic and Social Development, the BNDES, Isabelle Frederique, senior financial specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and João Costa, director of sustainability at the International Hydropower Association (IHA), headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
They will discuss sustainable finance instruments, also addressing the expectation in America for this type of financing. In addition, the issue of standards of sustainability for hydroelectric plants.
Also present will be Gil Maranhão, Director of Communication and Corporate Responsibility at ENGIE, a private company that is a reference in energy in Brazil. Gil will be at the table that will speak about the topic “Standart of sustainability for hydroelectric plants”, presenting the case of the company's São Salvador plant, which was part of the green bond launched worldwide by ENGIE.
On the part of Eletrobras, participate Luiz Augusto Figueira, director of Corporate Management and Sustainability, in addition to Pedro Jatobá, director of Executive Generation at EDP.
Companies such as EDP, Enel and Neoenergia, among other consultancies in the segment, will complete the debate panels, which will be broadcast via the Zoom platform, from 14:30 pm to 17:13 pm on Tuesday, and from 30:17 pm to XNUMX:XNUMX pm on Wednesday.
Information about Eletrobras
The largest company in the electricity sector in Latin America and leader in the generation and transmission of electricity in Brazil, Eletrobras contributes in all regions of Brazil so that the national energy matrix is one of the cleanest and most renewable in the world. It also operates in the commercialization and energy efficiency segments.
Energy efficiency and its benefits
Energy efficiency is that activity that seeks to improve the use of energy sources. also called rational use of energy, it consists of efficiently handling energy in order to obtain a certain result. In energy efficiency, there is a relationship between how much energy is used in an activity and how much is available for its performance.
Thus, the use of energy sources is optimized to reduce costs and also help the environment. In other words, it is about carrying out the processes spending less.
In this sense, a solution suggested by the National Institute of Energy Efficiency (INEE) is the distributed generation, or GD. The idea is to reduce the distance between the place where energy is generated and the place where it is consumed, through the implementation of technologies such as: emergency generators, renewable energy sources, co-generators, hydroelectric plants, among others. With that, less losses in the transmission of energy will happen. The smaller the distance between generation and consumption, the greater the energy efficiency.
