Learn more about the FBDS power projects.

Research and projects are important for a serious study on the future of the power sector at home and abroad.

Power, development and environment are very closely interrelated. Power projects of any kind, to a greater or lesser degree, interfere in the environment. The FBDS Power Area gives priority to the forms and intensities of power use that directly or indirectly minimize environmental impacts.

Alternative Energies include the group of what can be called non-conventional energy sources, that is, those not based on fossil fuels and large hydroelectricity plants. More recently, a more suitable move has begun to use what is called Renewable Energies, to distinguish the concept of those with natural renewal cycles, which ultimately come from solar energy as a primary source. The name New Renewable Energies has also been used to include wind, biomass and solar energy, as such. These renewable energies can and must be used on a sustainable basis so that there is minimum impact on the environment.

FBDS can meet your requirements for economic and technical studies as well as studies on socioeconomic and environmental impacts from projects of alternative or renewable energies:

• Wind Energy;
• Biomass Energy;
• Solar Energy;
• New Clean Energy Technologies (fuel cells, hydrogen, biodiesel)

On the other hand, the more energy is used (demand side) rationally and efficiently, the less pressure on the need to expand the power supply (supply side) and, therefore, less expected interference in the environment. Today it is acknowledged that the extra costs of power on the supply side are much higher than the same costs in power efficiency actions on the demand side. Hence the validity of each effort in discovering and adopting measures of power efficiency. It is worth pointing out, however, that efficient measures are only encouraged if preceded by proper studies, and if justifiable from the economic viewpoint.

FBDS will be able to help you find the best way for the rational and efficient use of power. It will be able to help you set up power efficiency programs in industrial plants, public buildings, sewage plants and others. It will be able to help you implement power management programs in industrial plants and local governments.