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Centro de Pesquisas de Energia Elétrica
Adaptation Strategy
for the Electricity
Sector in Brazil
KATIA CRISTINA GARCIA
Research Fellow
Electric Power Research Center (Cepel)
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CEPEL - Electric Power Research Center
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Biggest electrical energy research institution in South Amercia, founded in 1974, part of ELETROBRAS
System
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Mission: develop sustainable technology solutions for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity
for the Brazilian Electricity sector
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34 laboratories performing different experiments
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Areas: Environment and energy optimization, Electrical Grids Analysis, Electrical Systems Operation and
Automation, Transmission Lines and Substations, Electrical Distribution Technology, Special and Alternative
Energy Technologies
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Cooperates with ELETROBRAS in government strategic programs, such as the program that fosters
alternative electric power sources (Proinfa), the Rural Electrification Program and the National Program for
Electric Power Conservation (Procel).
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Supports ELETROBRAS and the Ministry of Mines and Energy on international initiatives focused on
sustainable development of electricity: Internacional Low-Carbon Energy Technology Plataform,
Hydropower Technology Roadmap implemented by the IEA and the UN high level group Sustainable
Energy fo All
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Eletrobras
• System consisting of: 6 subsidiary companies + 6 distribution companies +
Electric Power Research Center (Eletrobras Cepel) + Eletrobas
Participações S.A. (Eletrobras Eletropar) + 50% of the capital stock of Itaipu
Binacional.
• Mixed economy and open capital stock corporation, with shares traded at
São Paulo (Bovespa), Madrid and New York Stock Exchange.
• Federal government holds 54.46% of the ordinary shares of the company
• Mission: Operate in energy markets in a full, profitable and sustainable way.
• Vision: We aim to be, in 2020, the biggest global corporate system in
clean energy, with profitability comparable to the greatest companies in the
electrical area.
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Eletrobras - The biggest company of the electric power
sector in Latin America
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Generating capacity 42,333 MW
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45 hydroelectric plants, 125
thermoelectric plants, 8 wind farms
and 2 thermonuclear plants.
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61,534 km of transmission lines and
257 substations.
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Why climate change and adaptation matters to the
eletricity sector?
•IPCC AR5
•Extreme events
•Offer/Demand is
sensitive to climate
hazards (temperature,
winds, storms,
cloudiness, rain
regimes of rivers)
WBCSD, 2014
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Guidance and Framework for climate change
adaptation and resilience in the electric sector
•International Energy Agency (Nexus
Forum since 2012)
•Nuclear Energy Agency (vulnerability
and cost of adaptation)
•Department of Energy (USA), DOE
Response Framework
•Energy demand
•Energy Supply
•Energy Assets and
infrastructure
•World Bussiness Council for Sustainable
Development, 2014
•ONERC & EPE, 2014 (Observatoire
National sur les Effects du
Réchauffement Climatique & Entreprises
pour l´environnement)
•CEBEDS, 2013 (vulnerability study)
•FMASE, 2013 – position paper
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How Eletrobras is dealing with climate change?
• Eletrobras’s Statement of Commitment on Climate Change. To
enable all companies to adopt practices that can either reduce or
compensate for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
• Annual Corporate GHG Emission Inventory assured by external
independent auditors since 2012
• Eletrobras has been developing risk analyses aimed at the future
carbon market, and it has entered partnerships with research
institutes to foster studies and to investigate the understanding
about its vulnerability to climate change.
• Participate in government forums, such as the Brazilian Forum
on Climate Change, which seeks to assist the government in the
incorporation of climate change issues into the various stages of
public policies.
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How is the Brazilian Government acting about
climate change adaptation?
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Ministry of Environment  National Adaptation Plan until the end of 2015
(Adaptation to Climate Change Working Group since 2012)
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Themes: Transportation & Logistics, Energy, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Natural
Disasters, Costal Areas, Cities, Food Secutiry & Agriculture, Industry, Health, Water
 sectorial adaptation and mitigation plans
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Public consultation in 2014, contributions of indigenous people, contributions of
Brazilian Forum on Climate Change, etc, to colect ideas from different
stakeholders to help to develop an agenda to the NAP
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Other studies:
– Recomendations to a national strategy on climate change
– Methodologies to identify and priorize adaptation actions
– Economics of climate change
– Methodological studies about vulnerability and extreme events
– Socioenvironmental analisys and vulnerability of health projects to climate change
– Public policies and climate change
– Use of indicators to monitore climate change adaptation actions
– And more...
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Moving foward...
• Include Climate Change issues on the short, medium and long term
plans of the electricity sector
• Mitigation + Adaptation
• How electricity generation, transmission and distribution affects the
environment and how it is or may be affected by it?
• Develop ways to integrate climate change models with energy models
and derive results at the regional and local levels
• Start to consider climate change issues and its implications in new
Projects
• Assess, monitor and establish actions to reduce vulnerability and increase
resilience of electricity infrastructure
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Moving foward...
• Establish technical, institutional, political and economical
mechanismis to run the adaptation plans and actions – incentives from
external sources (goverments, shareholders and insurers) are necessary
• Development of risk-cost-benefit approaches for the energy and
electricity sector
• Technology innovation to respond to requirements of a changing climate
• Assess risks and opportunities presented to the energy sector
• Energy Security and energy resilience
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Thank you!
Obrigada!
[email protected]
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