Presentation
Vision
The Energy Planning Program is a nationally and internationally recognized center of academic excellence, contributing to generating, transmitting and transforming knowledge into solutions for major energy and sustainability problems.
Mission
To train professionals to have an interdisciplinary perspective to deal with the challenges of the future and to perform cutting-edge research at the frontier of science in energy, environment aiming at contributing to sustainable development.
Objectives
Teaching
- To keep the research areas, courses and school program up-to-date with the latest research and knowledge.
- Promoting active learning on cutting-edge topics.
Research
- To develop cutting-edge research at the frontier of science in energy and the environment.
- To increase and strengthen national and international research partnerships
Extension to society
- To apply scientific research to current societal challenges
- To develop scientific communication and dissemination strategies to increase and strengthen the position of PPE in society.
The Energy Planning Program (PPE) is one of the newest programs at COPPE. It was approved on January 4th, 1991, by the Graduate Teaching Council – CEPG at UFRJ. The PPE, however, originated in 1979, when the Interdisciplinary Energy Area (AIE) was created based on a joint initiative of three Graduate Programs: Systems Engineering, Production Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
In this sense, it is worth noting the pioneering role of the PPE in the interdisciplinary subject of Energy and the Environment in Brazil. This pioneering spirit can be seen in the training of researchers who have gone on to work in units of UFRJ itself or other Brazilian and foreign universities, and in the creation of new academic research centers throughout Brazil.
The consolidation of the PPE bore fruit and contributed to the creation and implementation of the undergraduate course in Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic School, the Graduate Course in History and Epistemology of Science, and the lato sensu Graduate Course in Oil and Gas, all at UFRJ.
The PPE aims to teach, research and develop extension activities related to the areas of Energy Planning and Environmental Planning. The EPP is not the sum of different backgrounds, but synergy within the same applied research environment. Its faculty and students include engineers from different specialties (civil, electrical, chemical, metallurgical, mechanical, production, nuclear, transport, etc.), economists, biologists, chemists, geographers, geologists, architects, mathematicians and physicists.
The dynamic of teaching and research activities has led to a strong integration between theory/university and practice/market/government, exposing the Program’s student body to an environment of rich and mutually fertile academic-professional experiences. This dynamic also explains the high demand from the market and government institutions for the Program’s professors and students.
In this interaction with the external environment (market, government and society), the PPE has contributed directly through the assignment of teachers and students to regulatory agencies, government bodies, state secretariats, energy companies, among others, in the areas of Energy and/or the Environment.
Throughout its history, the PPE has given professors the positions of President of Eletrobrás; Director of the National Water Agency (ANA); Superintendent of the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL); Superintendent of the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency; Director General of the Energy Research Company (EPE), Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Energy; Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Climate Change Forum; and Acting Minister of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. It is also worth noting that PPE professors contributed to the formulation of the institutional model for the Brazilian energy sector and were important in the development of the country’s industrial policy model. PPE alumni are also currently prominent in public and private, national and international institutions.
The EPP is a pioneer in Brazil and Latin America on issues such as:
- Integrated modeling of the expansion and operation of energy systems
- Greenhouse effect and global climate change
- Sustainable energy development
- Energy efficiency
- Demand-side management
- Energy efficiency
- Integrated resource planning
- Energy, environment and development
- Energy analysis
- Life cycle analysis of energy resources
- Environmental management in the energy industry
- Analysis of the oil industry and geopolitics
- Waste management
- Water resource management
- Modeling the impacts of global climate change
- Greenhouse gas emissions from hydroelectric plants
Throughout its existence, the PPE has shown competence in the articulation of related areas of scientific knowledge regarding the topics of Energy Planning and Environmental Planning, addressing these themes in an integrated way both under their stricto sensu technological perspective and under a social and economic perspective. This is competence is seen both in the formation of specialists and researchers for the market, as mentioned above, and in the demand by professionals related to companies in the areas of energy and/or environment to develop their knowledge in the Program.
The professors also work as area and ad-hoc consultants for CNPq, FAPERJ, FAPESP, CAPES and FINEP; they are reviewers or members of the editorial board of numerous indexed scientific journals; they are or have been members of FIRJAN’s Business Council for the Environment; the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC); the Itaipu Binacional Council; the Brazilian Physics Society (SBP); the Perseu Abramo Foundation Council; the Special Lecturer Corps of the War College, among others.
In relation to the environmental and climate issue, the direct participation of teachers in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is relevant
Teaching staff
Administrative
Executive Secretariat
Executive Secretary Office: Irene Delgado
E-mail: irene@ppe.ufrj.br
Tel.: (21) 3938-8760
Fax.: (21) 3938-8777
Financial Management Office
Financial Manager: Queila Alves Barbosa
E-mail: queila@ppe.ufrj.br
Tel: (21) 3938-8773
Fax: (21) 3938-8777
Academic Secretariat
Sandra Bernardo dos Reis
E-mail: sandra@ppe.ufrj.br
Fernando Moreno
E-mail: nando@ppe.ufrj.br
Tel: (21) 3938-8761
Fax.: (21) 3938-8777
IT Center
Support: Gustavo Luiz F. Sousa
E-mail: suporte@ppe.ufrj.br
Infrastructure
The PPE’s teaching and research infrastructure includes a 48-seat auditorium (room C-216), a 28-seat auditorium (room C-213) with video conferencing equipment, a 35-seat classroom (room I-211), two meeting rooms, a room for each permanent lecturer, a researchers’ room and two student study rooms.
The PPE also has laboratories linked to the program.
