• DocumentCode
    2991447
  • Title

    Energy education in corporations

  • Author

    Cutri, Rodrigo ; André, Fundação Santo

  • Author_Institution
    Maua Inst. of Technol., Maua, Brazil
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The global crisis had caused the decline of many financial institutions and had caused many problems in Brazil and abroad, which raises the question: how to increase profits at a time of crisis? In a decreasing consumption situation corporations must reducing energy costs to improve operating profit. Energy management is an important tool to solve this problem. In Brazil information about energy management became more present in university and business world. This paper presents impressions gained when presentation of the subject of energy management to companies of different sectors and discusses the presentation of this subject in the corporate environment.
  • Keywords
    energy conservation; energy management systems; profitability; Brazil; corporate environment; energy education; energy management; financial institution; global crisis; Business; Companies; Costs; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Energy management; Environmental economics; ISO standards; Monitoring; Power generation economics; business; energy; management; university;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7094-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507748
  • Filename
    5507748