Strategic Planning

In compliance with the Climate Change Policy, Copel’s Strategic Planning contemplates aspects such as climate scenarios and risks, business prospects, as well as the evaluation of emissions and the development of a neutrality plan for the coming years.

As an unfolding measure of the strategic planning, Copel is studying to diversify its renewable matrix and the offer of new services, which represent a challenge for the Company, both for the execution of the activity and for economic feasibility.

Within the possibilities, Copel manages demand, improves energy and operational efficiency, implements distributed generation by means of new wind power plants and photovoltaic panels, makes use of energy from biomass and biogas, implements smart electricity grids, stimulates the use of electricity for the transportation and mobility sector, as well as expanding centralized renewable energy generation ventures.

Commitments and Goals

Commitments

As a resulting measure of its Climate Change Policy, Copel shall comply with the following commitments:

CommitmentsStrategy

Performing GGE emission

mitigation within the Company

processes and activities.

● Fleet: fostering renewable fuel use and electric car usage.

● Developing energy efficiency, including: renovating air

conditioning system, lamp change for LED lamps, etc.).

● Sponsoring projects that aim at decreasing GGE

emission or that enable carbon sequestration.

● Keeping generation matrix predominantly with low

emission sources.

● Developing renewable power generation projects.

● Fostering Distance Learning and on-line meetings.

● Intensifying actions for technical loss decrease by means

of network automation.

● Expanding the power park with new power sources with

low GGE emission.

● Releasing at most 0.0890 tCO2/MW.h of generated

power by 2025, considering Brazil ́s expansion power

and the possible input of new undertakings within the

Company power matrix.

Qualifying and fostering value chain

to mitigate and GGE emissions.

● Attending forums, discussion groups and alike related to

climate change.

● Disclosing yearly, in Public Records, Copel GGE

emission inventory, checked by a third party.

● Reporting Copel GGE inventory third party inventories.

● Sponsoring electric car and bike use in Paraná State.

● Implementing electrified rail in BR 277 highway and

fostering partnership with other power companies in SC

and SP highway connection.

● Fostering electric service station opening in urban

centers.

● Fostering clean energy generation and marketing.

● Developing Energy Efficiency actions.

● Intensifying Smart Grid projects.

● Developing Distributed Generation actions.

● Developing R&D projects, including energy assets

distributed to the power system optimization and

efficiency.

● Searching for green bond sources.

● Studying the feasibility of marketing REC (Renewable

Energy Certificates) projects.

● Disclosing developments achieved in R&D surveys and

projects related to climate change.

Fostering adaptation project

execution concerning climate

change impacts in Company

business, aiming at decreasing risks

and searching for new business

opportunities.

● Considering that adaptation measures proposed in risk

assessment performed in the Company.

● Incorporating adaptation measure for each risk

assessment performed, in order to enable GGE emission

mitigation.

● Incorporating climate change variable in risk analysis

and new business opportunity.

● Deploying Smart Grid systems to renovate the

distribution system and decrease service offer

vulnerability due to climate change.

Net Zero Ambition Commitment

The Net Zero Ambition Commitment is an accelerator initiative to challenge and support Global Compact member companies to set robust, science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thereby ensure that the company works with the urgency and ambition needed to contribute to curbing the rise in global temperatures.

Goals

As a resulting measure of its Climate Change Policy, Copel approved the following goals:

2019-2022 Goals

Mitigation Goals

Absolute decrease goals

ScopeGoalYear % Term
Scope 1

Decreasing fleet emissions in 2%

(base year: 2017)

0,5%2022
Scope 2

Decreasing power consumption in 5%

(base year: 2017)

1,25%2022
Offset goal
ScopeGoalYear % Term
Scope 1

Offset Copel Telecom Scope 1 year

emissions in 100%

100%2022
Relative reduction targets
ScopeGoalYear % Term
Scope 1Reducing in 4% Copel GeT Scope 1 emissions / generated power1%2022
Scope 1

Reducing in 5% Copel DIS Scope 1 emissions / designed

demand

1,25%2022
Scope 1Reducing in 5% Copel Telecom Scope 1 emissions / customer1,25%2022
Scope 2Reducing in 0.1% Copel DIS technical losses0,5%2020
Scope 2Reducing in 1% Copel power consumption / usage0,25%2022

 

Adaptation Goal
GoalYear % Term

Assessing climate change risks in at least

one undertaking for: Generation,

Transmission and Distribution.

Years 1 and 2. Vulnerability survey

Years 3 and 4. Adaptation measure proposal

2022

Climate Change Responsibility

Climate issue responsibility at Copel is assigned to the Board of Directors, the Sustainable Development Committee and the chairperson, as provided in the bylaws, that assigns as skills enforcing the Company business overall guidance and resolve on the subject, setting forth goals and priorities, searching for development with sustainability, and also approving sustainability policies and risk management. What is more, the chairman is responsible for coordinating the responsibilities and assignments related to the Company managements.

The Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer is responsible for social, environment, climate change and corporate governance topics in controlled companies and in other corporate interests.

Climate Change Commission Coordinator is the sustainability and governance superintendent, and he/she is chosen as directly subordinated to Governance, Risk and Compliance Officer, and he/she is responsible for leading corporate goal progress follow-up; identifying vulnerabilities and proposing adaptation measures; assessing risks and opportunities related to climate change, as well as reporting to the Top Management on the Company emission management results.