Principal results of PROCEL (1986 to 2009).

Principal results of PROCEL (1986 to 2009).

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This work has as main goal to present some of the issues regarding the effects of the Brazilian economy in the effectiveness of national energy efficiency projects in order to provide some guidelines for optimizing the energy saving actions. The replacement of traditional electric motors with high efficiency motors has been considered, or that brin...

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... 1991, PROCEL was transformed into a Government Program and its range and responsibilities increased. Procel's main results, from 1986 to 2009, are shown in Table 1 <www.eletrobras.gov.br/procel/site/home/>. ...
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... Table 1 shows the results cumulated by Procel. The total investments made are bigger than 1,12 billion of real, besides the saved energy is equivalent to a 9.105 MW power plant. ...

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