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
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