Transitions in energy history: development and new perspectives about the natural gas in Brazil

• Grant number: 17/18208-8
• Support type: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Duration: January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal researcher: Drielli Peyerl
• Grantee: Drielli Peyerl
• Home Institution: Instituto de Energia e Ambiente (IEE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Assoc. researchers: Dominique Mouette ; Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos ; Evandro Mateus Moretto
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/12521-9 - Governmental strategies for decarbonization in the urban public transport sector in the Metropolitan Region of the city of São Paulo (SP), Brazil, BP.IC; 20/02546-4 - The role of the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the energy transition in Brazil, BP.MS; 19/17996-8 - Urban mobility and alternative fuels in transition to a low carbon economy in the transport in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, BP.IC; 19/04555-3 - Construction of scenarios related to the decentralization and transition of the energy matrix: technological frontiers and geological potential of natural gas in the state of São Paulo, BP.MS; 18/26388-9 - Transitions in Energy History: development and new perspectives about the natural gas in Brazil, BP.JP

Abstract

Brazil has gone through several transitions related to energetic issues that go from the creation of public and energetic policies, of process of territorial recognition and natural resources, the government and private initiatives, to the social, environmental and economic impact that these transitions generate. From this perspective, History of Energy allows us to incorporate energy not only as something natural, but to stimulate us to think about its processes, mechanisms, effects or even environmental changes occasioned by its uses. Therefore, the goal is to study Brazil through its innumerous energetic transitions, having as focus the natural gas, associated with projects from Energy Policies and Economic Programme from Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI-USP), or, in other words, apply the theory in practice. In other words, it will be possible to apply the theory in practice on the basis of natural gas. Thus, from an investigative way derived from the data analysis (historical and current), we turn our attention to the applicability and uses of natural gas in the energy system in the country, impacts on the environment and economy, considering the historical context, which allows the diagnosis of investments and the use and use of natural gas in Brazil. Exploring yet technical, economic, social and environmental conditions that make natural gas a viable solution, for example, for the more sustainable transport systems (focus on project 25 - RCGI). Putting thus, at issue, what we denominate of energy transition, like one of the main paradigms in discourse of public policies and governmental and private strategies related to the energy. Therefore, it is necessary to return to primary, secondary and current sources which can demonstrate the research and the use of energy more efficiently, allowing social, political and economic development to be thought along with new perspectives in the short and long term. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RELVA, STEFANIA GOMES; DA SILVA, VINICIUS OLIVEIRA; VEIGA GIMENES, ANDRE LUIZ; UDAETA, MIGUEL EDGAR MORALES; ASHWORTH, PETA; PEYERL, DRIELLI. Enhancing developing countries ` transition to a low-carbon electricity sector. ENERGY, v. 220, APR 1 2021. Web of Science Citations: 0.

NETTO, ANNA LUISA ABREU; CAMARA, GEORGE; ROCHA, EXPEDITO; SILVA, ALDO LUIZ; ANDRADE, JOSE CELIO SILVEIRA; PEYERL, DRIELLI; ROCHA, PAULO. A first look at social factors driving CCS perception in Brazil: A case study in the Reconcavo Basin. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL, v. 98, JUL 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

PEYERL, DRIELLI; DE MENDONCA FIGUEIROA, SILVIA FERNANDA. Applied geophysics in Brazil and the development of a national oil industry (1930-1960). HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY, v. 36, n. 1 MAY 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

MOUETTE, DOMINIQUE; MACHADO, PEDRO GERBER; FRAGA, DENIS; PEYERL, DRIELLI; BORGES, RAQUEL ROCHA; FELIPE BRITO, THIAGO LUIS; SHIMOMAEBARA, LENA AYANO; DOS SANTOS, EDMILSON MOUTINHO. Costs and emissions assessment of a Blue Corridor in a Brazilian reality: The use of liquefied natural gas in the transport sector. Science of The Total Environment, v. 668, p. 1104-1116, JUN 10 2019. Web of Science Citations: 1.