Proposal of changes on brazilian's energy efficiency programs to maximize the return of investments

Abstract

Electrical energy management is a basic necessity for a country development, currently becoming theme of discussion by Government and Regulatory Agencies that looks for best practices on energy efficiency. For Brazil, the energy efficiency programs look continuously for private and public investments on new procedures, standards and projects but the return of investment is not considered in order to maximize the energy savings. Based on that, a deeper analysis is carried out on two main Brazilian Programs (Procel and PEE), comparing investments year over year, energy savings and return of investments. Based on this analysis, it's possible to note that majority of resources is not applied on the best projects or projects that are aligned with economical aspects of region, but on social projects due to Government regulations that don't have high return of investment. A proposal of change for the currently Brazilian scenario is also proposed in order to maximize the energy saving.