ENGIE presents four innovation projects with a focus on energy transition and generation of revenues
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Projects ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to the monitoring of electricity consumption, reducing costs and controlling greenhouse gas emissions, to a platform for helping women overcome the impacts of the pandemic, ENGIE, the largest energy company in the private sector in Brazil, operating in generation, trading and transmission of electric energy, gas infrastructure and energy solutions, during ENGIE Brasil Innovation Day on June 17, presented four innovative ideas receiving investments from the Company.
Two initiatives involving startups and two inhouse projects were presented at the event – part of the global festival of innovation put on by the company. With a live transmission through the ENGIE Brasil channel on Youtube, the meeting was patronized by managers, specialists as well as representatives of startups and had the participation of economist, Ricardo Amorim.
ENGIE invests approximately R$ 20 million annually in R&D projects and innovation. All the initiatives adopt a model based on sustainable growth in order to meet the major challenges of the energy transition to a low carbon economy. The Company has assumed a commitment for reducing carbon emissions from its activities to zero by 2045. “Brazil continues as one of the ENGIE’s principal stakeholders worldwide and for this reason it will have to make a significant contribution to achieving this goal. Innovation plays a critical part in this transition”, explained Gil Maranhão, Chief Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at ENGIE.
Among initiatives contemplated is the Predictive Maintenance Platform for Air Conditioning Systems from Minerva Control – which by means of digital replica, analyzes the performance of apparatus, identifying possible problems which generate additional expenditure on energy. “The result is more efficient maintenance with fewer faults and lower costs”, explains CEO Rodrigo Juliani.
Deep Ambiente presented the Virtual Desaggregator, a system which monitors energy consumption and helps to achieve energy bill savings up to 40%. The company’s CEO, Marlon Teixeira describes the solution as one that uses artificial intelligence to identify which item of equipment is expending more energy than it should, thus contributing to a reduction of consumption.
A further two inhouse innovation projects were also showcased. One of them, the Biodiversity Matrix, is to digitize a series of data collected on the Brazilian flora and fauna. The aim is to build up a biodiversity conservation program in the area encompassing ENGIE’s generator complex.
The Women of Our Neighborhood platform has helped finance 28 businesses in 14 states of Brazil run by women who had suffered the financial impacts as a result of the pandemic.
“ENGIE is proud of the partnerships with which it has been associated over its 25 years in Brazil together with a series of research institutions and other public and private organizations with a focus on innovative projects. The results which have been achieved contributed not only to the Company finding solutions to its operational, environmental and socio-economic challenges but also to the scientific and technological progress of the country”, declares Gil Maranhão Neto.
The seventh edition of ENGIE Brasil Innovation Day also enjoyed the participation of economist Ricardo Amorim. Selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the country, Amorim spoke at the conclusion of the event about how the pandemic had accelerated the digital transformation in the world and the importance to technology in decarbonization. “We were already witnessing major transformations but the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation. What we are seeing is a brutal process of accelerated digitization. In addition, I believe that technology and innovation will play a critical role in relation to climate and decarbonization issues”, he said.
ENGIE Brasil Innovation Day 2021 had the support of COPPE UFRJ, Associação Nacional de Entidades Promotoras de Empreendimentos Inovadores (Anprotec), Associação Catarinense de Tecnologia (Acate), Firjan, Associação Brasileira da Infraestrutura e Indústrias de Base (Abdib), Instituto Acende Brasil, Fundação Certi and France-Brazil Chamber of Commerce.
Sobre a ENGIE
A ENGIE é referência mundial em energia de baixo carbono e serviços. Com seus 96.000 colaboradores, clientes, parceiros e stakeholders, o Grupo está comprometido em acelerar a transição para um mundo neutro em carbono, através do consumo reduzido de energia e soluções mais sustentáveis. Inspirada em seu propósito, a ENGIE concilia performance com um impacto positivo sobre as pessoas e o planeta se apoiando em suas atividades chave (gás, energia renovável e serviços) para oferecer soluções competitivas aos seus clientes. Faturamento em 2022: 93,9 bilhões de Euros.
No Brasil, a ENGIE, empresa líder em energia renovável do país, atua em geração, comercialização e transmissão de energia elétrica, transporte de gás e soluções energéticas. Com capacidade instalada própria de cerca de 10 GW em 77 usinas, o que representa cerca de 6% da capacidade nacional, a empresa possui 100% de sua capacidade instalada proveniente de fontes renováveis e com baixas emissões de Gases de Efeito Estufa (GEE), como usinas hidrelétricas, eólicas, solares e a biomassa.
A ENGIE é também a detentora da mais extensa malha de transporte de gás natural do país, com 4.500 km, que atravessam 10 estados e 191 municípios, graças à aquisição da Transportadora Associada de Gás – TAG, concluída em 2020.Além disso, a ENGIE possui um portfólio completo em soluções integradas responsáveis por reduzir custos, emissões e melhorar infraestruturas para empresas, como ar comprimido, autoprodução solar local, biogás e biomassa, consultoria e gestão de energia, HVAC e subestações. Nas cidades, atuamos como parceira para tornar os espaços urbanos mais eficientes e sustentáveis, com soluções de iluminação pública, mobilidade elétrica e de district cooling.
Contando com 2.400 colaboradores, a ENGIE teve no país em 2022 um faturamento de R$ 12,8 bilhões.
A ENGIE está presente na B3 por meio de sua empresa de geração e comercialização de energia cujo ticker é o EGIE3. Na B3, a ENGIE integra o Novo Mercado, além de ser uma das únicas companhias listadas no Índice de Sustentabilidade Empresarial desde o início do ISE, em 2005. Em 2021, a B3 incluiu os papeis da ENGIE no Índice Carbono Eficiente (ICO2), composto pelas ações das empresas participantes do IBrX 100 que possuem maior transparência em relação ao reporte das emissões dos GEE e de como estão se preparando para uma economia de baixo carbono.
O Grupo é negociado nas bolsas de Paris e Bruxelas (ENGI), sendo representado nos principais índices financeiros (CAC 40, Euronext 100, FTSE Euro 100, MSCI Europe) e índices não financeiros (DJSI World, Euronext Vigeo Eiris – Europe 120/France 20, MSCI EMU ESG screened, MSCI EUROPE ESG Universal Select, Stoxx Europe 600 ESG-X).
