Company is the first in the sector to join the Energy Efficiency Learning Network (ReDEE) to promote the efficient use of electricity in concession areas

The first company in the sector to participate in the Energy Efficiency Learning Network (ReDEE), Neoenergia is promoting actions for the efficient use of energy in eight public and charitable hospitals in Bahia and Rio Grande do Norte — concession areas of Neoenergia Coelba and Neoenergia Cosern, respectively.

The implementation of ReDEE is an initiative of the “Future Energy Systems” project, a technical cooperation formed by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the German company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Gmbh, which operates in Brazil. Led by Neoenergia, the main objective of the project is to further encourage the integration of renewable energies with energy efficiency in the country.

Among the actions planned by Neoenergia, the following stand out: replacement of existing equipment with more efficient ones (air conditioning, lamps, hospital devices); installation of solar heating and devices/systems for the automation of the use of equipment; and educational initiatives to raise user awareness.

The project will be completed in September of this year. The company set a goal of saving 910 MWh/year in energy efficiency actions and 32 MWh/year in renewable generation.

“It is important to identify the challenges to increasingly expand energy efficiency actions in our concession areas.

In this sense, ReDEE is a great opportunity for the beneficiary institutions to safely achieve results within sustainable parameters,” says Ana Mascarenhas, Superintendent of Energy Efficiency at Neoenergia.

ReDee exists to promote energy efficiency actions in Brazilian building facilities and public institutions. The methodology, created in Switzerland in the late 1980s, was applied in several countries, achieving prominence in Germany as a public policy for promoting energy efficiency and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

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